How many story did William Shakespeare make?

Answer 1

Shakespeare wrote or at least co-wrote 38 plays and also wrote two long narrative poems. That's 40 stories (more if you consider that some plays tell more than one story at once). Of course Shakespeare did not "make up" these stories. Everything he wrote (with the exceptions of the plays The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream) told stories he had read in books or seen in other plays. Shakespeare's greatness lies not in the stories he thought up, but how he told stories he had heard.