Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, The Tempest, Sonnets
plays count
39
Core Principles & Analysis
Born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon (baptized April 1564; died 23 April 1616), he became an actor, playwright, and shareholder in London's Lord Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men).
His extant works comprise some 39 plays (including collaborations), 154 sonnets, and 3 long narrative poems written mainly between 1589 and 1613.
Fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell published 36 of his plays in the posthumous 1623 First Folio, where Ben Jonson praised him as 'not of an age, but for all time'.