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.
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