Shakespeare+as+playwright+and+actor

Shakespeare as a playwright and actor



William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Warwickshire, England. He was born into a christian family, therefore baptised before age 1. Being christian played a big role in his plays, it would be hard to understand some of his plays without fully understanding some of the Christian faith.

Shakespeare wrote a total of 154 Sonnets, two long narrative poems, and more than three dozen plays in his lifetime. He lived for a long time in Stratford with his wife and children but suddenly left them to work in London. Evidence is unclear why. There is a theory that maybe he was caught for poaching but fled to London to avoid persecution.

By the age of 20 he was a successful playwright in London, in 1592. Two years later, he joined a theater company known as The Lord Chamberlain's Men, whose name later changed to The King's Men because of King James I, who eventually took over management of the company. The Lord Chamberlain's Men first acted at the Blackfriar in London, but it was in a bad location, so they deconstructed the Blackfriar and moved it across the river and used the timber to built the Globe. Though the Blackfriar was not bought, only leased, the original owner of the Blackfriar sued The Lord Chamberlain's Men, but they won the suit.

Shakespeare was a very successful playwright, and wrote many histories, comedies, and tragedies. Shakespeare's worst play being a tragedy titled: **Titus Andronicus**, yet his greatest play was a tragedy as well, titled: **King Lear**. But Shakespeare's favorite play, according to him, is **Hamlet**, which is also a tragedy.