Work
Shakespeare was a big poet and wrote some nice sonnets, but the best know are his plays. He wrote 37 plays, tragedies, comedies, historical plays and romances, which is something between tragedy and comedy:
Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and plays which are something between tragedy and a historical play – Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus.
Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Twelfth Night.
Romances: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest.
Historical plays: Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI.
Some typical features (rysy) of his plays: plots are not original, but the performance (zpracování) is. Only 3 plays are not based on a any literary topic. There are ussually 2 or 3 plots (play in play).
The Globe
Round in shape,open-air, very huge, for 3 tousand people,wooden theatre. The audience people from all social classes – aristocrats, caftsmen (řemeslníci), paople of the profession. Performences took place at 3 o´clocck in the afternoon – they didn´t play every day. Women´s roles were played by young men. It was rebuilt in 1996.
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