Shakespeare+(Professional+Life)

​Kylie Hardsock

SHAKESPEARE PROFESSIONAL LIFE​

Shakespeare was known as the best dramatist of his time (Dawson 1).

Shakespeare was an actor and a play writer. His most popular plays are: Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, and Hamlet (Dawson 1). One of his plays called Henry VI Part 1 was played in the Rose Theatre (Rosen 25). He also acted for several companies (Andrews 44). One company was Lord Chamberlain's Men (Rosen 28). Between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-two he was writing poetry and poems (28). He wrote over 150 sonnets (Andrews 44). His play Richard III, "emphasizes the idea that God has tested, punished, and purified England through a series of bloody conflicts" (44). Later on in life he got in trouble with the law for hoarding corn and ale (Rosen 28).

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