The Tempest is most likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, and it is remarkable for being one of only two plays by Shakespeare (the other being Love’s Labor’s Lost) whose plot is entirely original. It was performed again in the winter ofĭuring the festivities in celebration of the marriage of King James’s daughter Elizabeth. , and was first performed at Court by the King’s Men in the fall of 1611. A number of Shakespeare’s plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance, becoming so influential as to affect profoundly the course of Western literature and culture ever after. The legacy of this body of work is immense. In the absence of credible evidence to the contrary, Shakespeare must be viewed as the author of the thirty-seven plays and Some people have concluded from this fact and from Shakespeare’s modest education that Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by someone else-Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford are the two most popular candidates-but the support for this claim is overwhelmingly circumstantial, and the theory is not taken seriously by many scholars. The unprecedented admiration garnered by his works led to a fierce curiosity about Shakespeare’s life, but the dearth of biographical information has left many details of Shakespeare’s personal history shrouded in mystery. Shakespeare’s works were collected and printed in various editions in the century following his death, and by the early eighteenth century his reputation as the greatest poet ever to write in English was well established. At the time of Shakespeare’s death, literary luminaries such as Ben Jonson hailed his works as timeless. Wealthy and renowned, Shakespeare retired to Stratford and died inĪt the age of fifty-two. Indeed, James granted Shakespeare’s company the greatest possible compliment by bestowing upon its members the title of King’s Men. ), and he was a favorite of both monarchs. His career bridged the reigns of Elizabeth I (ruled Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and a part-owner of the Globe Theater. He left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. He married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. To a successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. In all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in
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