His plays were very popular when he was alive and were performed at the Globe Thaetre. People sat through the plays in the open air for round about 5 hours. The groundlings (poor people) use to stand on the ground watching his plays.
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Shakespeare started writing plays in about 1590 and retired from doing it in 1613. He seems to have been popular and successful at all stages of his career.
Very successful. He was not regarded as the top playwright in his own time, but he was definitely in the top three.
His plays were very popular when he was alive and were performed at the Globe Thaetre. People sat through the plays in the open air for round about 5 hours. The groundlings (poor people) use to stand on the ground watching his plays.
William Shakespeare had a history of writing plays during a long and successful career as an actor. He started when he was about twenty-four, and finished when he was about forty-nine.
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Very well. Shakespeare was a successful playwright, and he was encouraged to continue writing more and more plays. Also, many of his plays were put into print (some in pirated form), a good sign that they were popular. He was not, of course, the only playwright around at the time that was that successful--he had many popular and talented contemporaries.
I first found Shakespeare's plays when I was introduced to them at school.
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The Globe Theater, London.
The Puritans.