Playwrights had to consider that performances took place only during the day this means for example that there was no lightning but that daylight had to be sufficient as an instrument for setting the mood. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623 and is known as ‘the First Folio’.When a playwright such as William Shakespeare wrote a new play which was supposed to be performed on stage in a London theatre at the beginning of the seventeenth century, he had to bear in mind how the conditions on site looked like. Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include The Tempest. Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s these include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony & Cleopatra. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Richard II all date from the mid to late 1590s. His earliest plays include Henry VI and Titus Andronicus. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin to appear in 1594, and he produced roughly two a year until around 1611. Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets were probably written at this time as well. Shakespeare’s poetry was published before his plays, with two poems appearing in 15, dedicated to his patron Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. The Company acquired interests in two theatres in the Southwark area of London, near the banks of the Thames - the Globe and the Blackfriars. We do know that he was part of the Lord Chamberlain’s Company, which was renamed the King’s Company in 1603 when James I succeeded to the throne. Shakespeare’s theatrical life seems to have commenced around 1590. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, and the couple had a daughter the following year and twins in 1585. Shakespeare was probably educated in Stratford’s grammar school. His father was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do local land owner. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, and was baptised on 26 April 1564.
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