FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Yes
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No
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The stories told in Shakespeare’s plays are not original. Rather, Shakespeare sourced his plots and characters from historical accounts and classical texts. Shakespeare was well-read and drew from an extensive range of texts – not all of them written in his mother tongue!
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare only ever wrote two plays with original plots: Love’s Labor’s Lost and The Tempest. For all his other works he borrowed plots from other writers, often re-ordering events, inserting subplots, and adding or removing characters. The book he relied on most heavily for plot ideas was Holinshed’s Chronicles.
Detailed explanation-3: -Don’t get your ‘Globes’ mixed up! ‘Shakespeare’s Globe’ is our company name and how we refer to our entire site, ‘The Globe’ is how we talk about the original theatres from Shakespeare’s time, and the ‘Globe Theatre’ is the name of today’s reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare’s plays are traditionally divided into the three categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and tragedies.