William Shakespeare summary
Explore the life of William Shakespeare and his greatest plays
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William Shakespeare Timeline
William Shakespeare | Timeline
William Shakespeare’s Important Works
William Shakespeare | Important Works
Lord Chamberlain’s Men Summary
Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a London-based theatrical company with which William Shakespeare was intimately connected for most of his professional career as a dramatist. It was the most important company of players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The troupe’s early history is somewhat complicated.
Globe Theatre Summary
Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed. Early in 1599 Shakespeare, who had been acting with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men since 1594, paid into the coffers of the company a sum of money amounting to 12.5 percent of the cost of building