By Shakespeare had become a member and part owner of an acting company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, where he soon became the company's principal playwright. His plays enjoyed great popularity and high critical acclaim in the newly built Globe Theatre. It was through his popularity that the troupe gained the attention of the new king, James I, who appointed them the King's Players in Before retiring to Stratford in , after the Globe burned down, he wrote more than three dozen plays that we are sure of and more than sonnets.
He was celebrated by Ben Jonson, one of the leading playwrights of the day, as a writer who would be "not for an age, but for all time," a prediction that has proved to be true. Today, Shakespeare towers over all other English writers and has few rivals in any language. His genius and creativity continue to astound scholars, and his plays continue to delight audiences.
Many have served as the basis for operas, ballets, musical compositions, and films. While Jonson and other writers labored over their plays, Shakespeare seems to have had the ability to turn out work of exceptionally high caliber at an amazing speed. At the height of his career, he wrote an average of two plays a year as well as dozens of poems, songs, and possibly even verses for tombstones and heraldic shields, all while he continued to act in the plays performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
This staggering output is even more impressive when one considers its variety. Except for the English history plays, he never wrote the same kind of play twice. He seems to have had a good deal of fun in trying his hand at every kind of play.
Created to help readers gain a thorough understanding of Othello 's content and context, the guide includes:. Dante's Inferno Illustrated Edition. Othello, The Moor Of Venice. The Divine Comedy Inferno.
The Sonnets and Other Poems. The Rape of Lucrece. The Wife of Bath. Troilus And Cressida Mobi Classics. The Poems of Goethe. The Taming of the Shrew. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Sonnets from the Portuguese. The Vision Of Purgatory, Part 2. To Be or Not to Be. Othello, the Moor of Venice Annotated. Othello by William Shakespeare Illustrated. A Retelling in Prose. Making Sense of Othello! Elegies And Other Small Poems. Sonnets From The Portuguese. Othello Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford.
Romeo and Juliet Annotated by Henry N. Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. Hamlet Annotated by Henry N. All the World's a Grave. The Rape of Lucrece Annotated.
Vida's Art of Poetry. The Poetry of Ann Radcliffe. Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems.
Othello, The Moor of Venice. The Vision Of Purgatory, Part 3. Henry Alford, The Poetry. The Merchant of Venice. King Lear Mobi Classics. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives Of Windsor. Hamlet by William Shakespeare Illustrated. Coriolanus By William Shakespeare. Harvard Classics Volume Much Ado About Nothing. The Tempest by William Shakespeare Illustrated. Much Ado About Nothing, with line numbers. The Tempest Mobi Classics.
The History of King Lear. As You Like It. Macbeth In Plain and Simple English.