Shakespeare’s Sources William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. During the span of his life he worked mainly as an actor and principal playwright for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. His company went on to build the famous Globe Theater and were later named the King’s Men, by James I. As a writer he wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and two narrative poems. Shakespeare is not to be discredited as an author, but the …showed first 75 words of 2052 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2052 total…greatest writer of all time” a more fitting name might be, “the greatest editor of all time.” An editor is “one who prepares and corrects manuscripts for publication,” basically much of what Shakespeare did was just correcting an already existing work. For future reference remember that as great a writer as Shakespeare was, much of the framework of his plays is not originally his ideas, but modeled after the works of numerous authors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**