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- Shakespeare is believed to have joined the theatre as an actor, but he became better known as a playwright. Shakespeare’s plays would only be performed by his acting company and the profits were shared among actors and other owners of the company. Actors often specialised in one type of part.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/ztx48hvShakespeare’s plays in performance - about Shakespeare - BBC
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Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum (1642–1660), when most public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers. After the English Restoration, Shakespeare's plays were performed in playhouses, with elaborate scenery, and staged with music, dancing, thunder, lightning, wave machines, and ...
Shakespeare wrote tragedies, like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, and also comedies, like The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Acting companies built their own theatres for their performances.
Learn about what it was like to put on a performance in Shakespeare’s day without the use of fancy props, staging or even being able to use women on stage.
What was it like to see Shakespeare performed in a 17th century theatre? Find out how much theatre has changed since Elizabethan and Jacobean times.
In Hamlet (c. 1599–1601) Shakespeare offers his most detailed image of theatrical performance. Here a professional repertory troupe, similar to Shakespeare’s own Chamberlain’s Men , comes to Elsinore and performs The Murder of Gonzago before the Danish court.
- Alvin B. Kernan
We don't know exactly when Shakespeare started writing plays, but they were probably being performed in London by 1592. Shakespeare is likely to have written his final plays just a couple of years before his death in 1616.
After the English Restoration, Shakespeare's plays were performed in playhouses with elaborate scenery and staged with music, dancing, thunder, lightning, wave machines, and fireworks. During this time the texts were "reformed" and "improved" for the stage, an undertaking which has seemed shockingly disrespectful to posterity.
