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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 77: Romeo and Juliet

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    Greene's attack is the earliest record of Shakespeare's theatrical career.  Biographers believe that his career may have begun anytime between the mid-1580s and before Greene's Commentary.

    Beginning in 1594, Shakespeare's plays were only performed in the Lord Chamberlain's Company, a theater company formed by playwrights in which Shakespeare was also a shareholder, and later became the most important theater company in London.

    After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the new King James I awarded the troupe the royal emblem and renamed it the King's troupe.

    In 1599, a partner in the theater company built their own theater, the Globe Theater, on the south bank of the Thames.  In 1608, the Blackfriars Theater was also taken over by them.  Records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that the theater company made him wealthy.

    In 1597, he bought the second largest house in Stratford-upon-Avon; in 1605, he invested part of the parish tithe in Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Beginning in 1594, some of Shakespeare's plays were published in quarto.  By 1598, his name had become a selling point and began to appear on the title page.

    Shakespeare became a successful playwright and continued to perform in his own and other people's plays.  Shakespeare's name appears in the cast of Jonson's collection of plays published in 1616, such as "Different Characters" in 1598 and "Sijanus" in 1603.

    His name does not appear in Jonson's 1605 cast list for Forponnay, which some scholars consider to be a sign that his career as an actor was nearing the end.

    However, the First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623, lists Shakespeare as one of the principal actors in all the plays, some of which were performed for the first time after Forponnet, although we cannot  Confirm exactly which roles he played.

    In 1610, John Davis of Hereford wrote of him playing a monarch-like role.  In 1709, Luo continued the traditional view.  Think Shakespeare plays the ghost of Hamlet's father.  Later conventional wisdom holds that he also played Adam in As You Like It and Chorus in Henry V, however many scholars doubt the reliability of these sources.

    Shakespeare spent half his time in London and the other half in Stratford-upon-Avon.  In 1596, a year before buying a new house in his hometown, Shakespeare lived in the suburb of St Helens on the north bank of the Thames.

    In 1599, he moved to the south bank of the river, where the troupe built the Globe Theater in the same year.  In 1604, he moved again to an area with many high-end houses on the north bank of the river, north of St. Paul's Cathedral.  He rented a house from a man named Christophe Mountjoy, a French Huguenot.  Making women's wigs and other headwear.

    From 1606 to 2007, Shakespeare wrote fewer plays, and no new works were published after 1613.  His last three plays were most likely written in collaboration with John Fletcher, who, after Shakespeare, became the principal dramatist of the King's Company.

    Rowe is the first biographer to traditionally suggest that Shakespeare retired to Stratford-upon-Avon a few years before his death, but it was unusual for that era to cease all work.  And Shakespeare went on to London.

    In 1612, he was summoned by the court as a witness in a lawsuit concerning the marital property deed of Mountjoy's daughter Mary.  In March 1613 he purchased a secrecy at Blackfriars Abbey, and from November 1614 he spent several weeks in London with his son-in-law John Hall.

    Two days after his death, Shakespeare was buried in the high altar of St. Trinity's Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.  Sometime before 1623.  A memorial tombstone and his bust, carved as Shakespeare was composing, were erected on the north wall.

    The stele compares him with Nestor in Greek mythology, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates and the ancient Roman poet Virgil.  A slab of stone covers his tombstone to remove the curse of moving his bones.

    Shakespeare's creative career is usually divided into four stages.

    Until the mid-1590s, he mainly composed comedies.  Its style was influenced by Rome and Italy, while creating historical dramas in the popular chronological tradition.

    His second phase began around 1595 with the tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" and ended with the tragedy "Julius Caesar" in 1599.  During this period he wrote his most famous comedies and historical plays.

    The period from about 1600 to about 1608 was his tragic period.  Shakespeare's works are mainly tragedies.

    From about 1608 to 1613, he mainly composed tragicomedies.  Known as Shakespeare's late romance play.

    The earliest surviving Shakespeare works are the trilogy "Richard III" and "Henry VI", written in the early 1590s, when historical dramas were all the rage.  However, it is difficult to determine the time of creation of Shakespeare's works.?, original analytical research shows that "Titus Andronicus", "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" may also be Shakespeare's early works.

    His first historical drama, which drew much from Raphael Holinshed's 1587 edition of Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, dramatized the devastating results of the reign and was interpreted as the Tudor  Proof of origin.

    Their composition was influenced by the work of other Elizabethan playwrights, especially Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, as well as by the medieval dramatic tradition and the plays of Seneca.

    "The Comedy of Errors" is also based on a traditional story, but the source of "The Taming of the Shrew" has not been found, although the title of this work is the same as that of another play based on folklore.  Like the two best friends who approve of rape in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," the story of a man cultivating a woman's independent spirit in "The Taming of the Shrew" sometimes confuses modern critics and directors.

    Shakespeare¡¯s early classical and Italian-style comedies, which contained compact plots and precise comic sequences, turned to his successful romantic comedy style after the mid-1590s.  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a combination of romance, fairy magic, and not-so-over-the-top comedy.

    His next play, the equally romantic The Merchant of Venice, depicting the vengeful Jewish loan shark Shylock, reflected Elizabethan ideas, but modern audiences may experience racist views.  .

    The humor and playfulness of "Much Ado About Nothing", the charming rural scenery of "As You Like It" and the vivid revelers of "Twelfth Night" constitute Shakespeare's classic comedy series.

    After the cheerful Richard II, written almost entirely in verse, in the late 1590s Shakespeare introduced loose comedy into the historical plays Henry IV Part I, Part II and Henry V.  The characters he writes become more complex and delicate, and he can freely switch between humorous and serious scenes, jump between poetry and prose, to complete his various mature narrative works.

    This period of creation begins and ends with two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, a famous romantic tragedy depicting lustful adolescence, love and death; and Julius Caesar, based on Thomas North's 1579 play  Plutarch, a Greek writer in the Roman era, created a new form of drama in his work "Biography".

    Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro believes that in "Julius Caesar", various clues of politics, characters, sex, events, and even Shakespeare's own thoughts during the creative process are intertwined and interpenetrated.
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