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The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.
Pages in category "Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare (17 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Musicals based on plays" The following 169 pages are in this category, out of 169 total.
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, a painting containing scenes and characters from several plays of Shakespeare; by Sir John Gilbert, c. 1849. Shakespeare's works include the 36 plays printed in the First Folio of 1623, listed according to their folio classification as comedies, histories, and tragedies. [146]
Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare (17 C, 17 P) Television shows based on works by William Shakespeare (6 C, 41 P) LGBTQ-related adaptations of works by William Shakespeare (14 P)