Shakespeare's Works

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"The Globe" inside

Nowadays Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bank-! side produces the new crafts in acting and costuming; to suit Shakespeare's theatre, to create the unique atmosphere of those times. All the performances con­tinue whatever the weather though "The Globe" is an Open Air Theatre. There are 28 steps to the Middle Gallery and 50 steps to the Upper Gallery.

After 1614 William Shakespeare stopped going to London. He settled down at New Place. In about a month before his death Shakespeare signed his will. He died on 23 April, 1616. His tomb is in the Stratford Church. Shakespeare's wife Anne lived until 1623. After her death New Place was sold.

William Shakespeare was a poet of nature and a real representative of the Renaissance. He was a humanist, he wanted to overcome evil and stressed the fact that killing doesn't solve the problem. Shakespeare was a poet of realism. Thus most common people understood him better than the aristocracy did. Unfortunately, no manuscript copy of a Shakespeare's play survives, be­cause plays were not produced as manuscripts in his

Each actor's part was written out separately, with

()nly after his death in 1623 Shakespeare's plays

'• published by his friend, an actor of his company

Ben Jonson. The book consisted of thirty-six of Shake-

ipeare's plays, of which eighteen had not been pub-

Hnhed before, including some of his best-known works.

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