SHAKESPEARE'S
WRITING
By Alex Garcia, Ethan Frank, and Colin White
PLAYS
 “Shakespeare’s plays are traditionally divided into the three
categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and tragedies. The
plays within each grouping vary widely. Among the comedies, for
example, one can find sunny works filled with the banter of witty
lovers; hilariously complicated farces; and darker, more sober plays
such as The Tempest”(Folger).
COMEDY PLAYS
 All's Well That Ends Well
 As You Like It
 The Comedy of Errors
 Cymbeline
 Love's Labour’s Lost
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
SONNETS
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sonnet 18, lines 1–4
When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her though I know she lies
Sonnet 138, lines 1–2
SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING
 He wrote 884,647 words in his whole writing career, and 118,406
lines.
 He wrote 38 plays in his whole career.
 His longest play was Hamlet, it was 4,042 lines.
 His shortest play was The Comedy of Errors with 1,787 lines.
HIS WORDS
Some examples of words he created while writing his poems and
plays.
 Schoolboy
 Addiction
 Amazement
 Rival
 Useful
WORDS CONTINUED
 Madcap
 Flowery
 Spectacled Pedant
 Gentlefolk
 Fathomless
 Lackluster
TRAGEDIES
Most of what Shakespeare wrote were tragedies, his tragedies
were his basically his personal experiences he encountered
throughout his life.
 Hamlet
 Julius Cesar
WORKS CITED
“Floger Shakespeare Library.” Discover Shakespeare. Mimi Godfrey,
2005. Web. 25 April 2013.