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The impending death of the elderly and childless Queen Elizabeth may have spurred an interest in history plays and tragedies where there are abnormal transitions of power and usurpations: Richard III, Richard II, Henry VI Part 3, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar.

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nobody knows how he started writing but one reason is that after being an actor he decided he wanted to start writing plays.

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