How Shakespeare Changed Over Time

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," this is a quote from Hamlet, one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedy's. William Shakespeare was a great poet and playwriter. Known throughout the world, the extravagant works of Shakespeare have been performed in thousands of villages and cities. William Shakespeare has many famous works including Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado about nothing. Shakespeare made these plays all the way back in the 1500's. Over a course of twenty years Shakespeare wrote plays that captured the complete human emotion and conflict. Why have Shakespeare's plays stayed around for over 400 years?

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a breathtaking tragedy about two lovers who cannot be together because of their feuding families. This play was made by Shakespeare in around 1564. Why was this play so special? This play is so very special because of the simplicity of the plot, even though the story can still take you aback. There are many different versions of this play. Written at the beginning of Shakespeare's career as a playwriter, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is now considered to be one of the greatest love stories of all time. This play was so popular in the 1500's that it was published twice during Shakespeare's life in 1597

None of the plays original manuscripts have survived from Shakespeare's original writing back in 1599. It is believed that the first folio of this play was printed in 1623, even though it was made around 24 years before it was made. Why is this play Julius Caesar so special? This play is special because it makes the audience ponder ancient Roman history and contemporary politics. As movie posters and book covers like to say, the play is "based on a true story": the historical events surrounding the conspiracy against the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar and the civil war that followed his