The period between about 1600 and 1608 was Shakespeare's "tragic period", although he also wrote some "problem plays" during this period, such as "One Newspaper for the Other Newspaper", "Troy Ross and Cressida" and "The Last Marriage".

Many critics consider Shakespeare's great tragedies to represent the culmination of his art. The first hero is Prince Hamlet, probably the most talked about of Shakespeare's characters, especially the famous monologue "To live or to perish, it's a question worth considering."

Unlike the introverted Hamlet (whose fatal mistake is hesitation), the tragic heroes that follow, Othello and King Lear, fail because they make rash decisions when making decisions.

The plots of Shakespeare's tragedies often combine such fatal mistakes and shortcomings, ruining the original plan and destroying the hero and his lovers.

In Othello, the villain Egu provokes Othello's sexual jealousy, which leads him to kill his innocent wife who loves him dearly.

In King Lear, the old king renounces his rights and thus commits a tragic mistake that leads to the murder of his daughter and the torture and blindness of Duke Glost. According to the drama critic Frank Mode, "The play has neither well-behaved characters nor a free audience from torture." 」

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest and most compact tragedy, with uncontrollable ambition spurring Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, to murder the upright king and usurp the throne until their crimes in turn destroy themselves. In this play, Shakespeare adds supernatural elements to the structure of the tragedy.

His most revulsive major tragedies, Antony and Cleopatola, and Coriolanus. It includes some of Shakespeare's best poems, considered by poet and critic Thomas Steens and Eliot to be Shakespeare's most successful tragedy.

In his last creative years, Shakespeare turned to legendary plays, also known as tragicomedies. During this period, there were three major theatrical productions: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, as well as Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

These four works are less gloomy than the tragedy, more serious than the comedies of the 1590s, and end with reconciliation and forgiveness of the underlying tragic wrongs.

Some critics have noted the change in tone as evidence of Shakespeare's more peaceful outlook on life, but this may have merely reflected the popular style of theatre at the time.

Shakespeare also collaborated with two other works, Henry VIII and Two Noble Relatives, most likely with John Fletcher.

It has not yet been determined for which company Shakespeare's early plays were written. The title page of the 1594 book Titus Andronicus shows that the work was performed by three different troupes.

After the Black Death raged in 1592-1593. Shakespeare's plays are performed by his own company at The Theatre and the Curtain Theatre on the north bank of the River Thames.

Londoners flocked there to watch the first part of Henry IV. When there was a dispute between the landlord of the troupe and the theater. They demolished the original theatre and built the Globe Theatre out of timber, the first theatre built by actors for actors, on the south bank of the River Thames.

The Globe Theatre opened in the fall of 1599. Julius Caesar was the first play to be staged. Most of Shakespeare's successful works after 1599 were written for the Globe Theatre. Including Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear.

Year 1603. When the Ministers' Troupe was renamed the King's Theatre, a special relationship was established between the Theatre and the new King James I. Although the performance record is incomplete, between 1 November 1604 and 31 October 1605, the King's Theatre performed a total of seven of Shakespeare's plays at court. The Merchant of Venice was performed twice.

After 1608, they performed indoors at the Blackfriar's Theatre in the winter and at the Globe Theatre in the summer. The chamber theatre was imbued with the style of the time of James I and was so ornately decorated that Shakespeare could introduce more elaborate stage equipment. For example, in Cymbelin, "Jupiter descends on an eagle in thunder and lightning and throws a thunderbolt, and the ghosts kneel." 」

The cast of Shakespeare's troupe included the famous Richard Burbeech, William Kemp, Henry Condell and John Hemmings. Burbeech starred in many of Shakespeare's premieres, including Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.

Popular comedian William Kemp played the servant Peter in Romeo and Juliet and Doberry in Much Ado About Nothing, among other roles.

At the end of the 16th century, he was replaced by Robert Armin, who played the role of Rigoster in "All Are Happy" and "King Lear".

In 1613, the writer Henry Wharton considered Henry VIII to "describe a number of very spectacular ceremonial scenes." However, on June 29, when the play was staged at the Globe Theatre, a cannon set fire to the roof and the theatre burned down, a rare and accurately documented event in Shakespeare's plays.

In 1623, two of Shakespeare's best friends in the King's Company, John Hemmings and Henry Condell, published the First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare's plays. The book contains 36 works by Shakespeare, 18 of which were published for the first time. Many of these works have previously been published in quartorial volumes.

There is no evidence that Shakespeare endorsed these versions, as described in the First Folio as "plagiarized and sneaky copies." The British biographer Alfred Pollard called some of them "bad folios" because they were adapted, rewritten, or tampered with, and many places rewritten from memory.

So there are multiple versions of the same script, and they are not the same as each other. These discrepancies may have stemmed from reproduction or typographical errors, notes from actors or spectators, and Shakespeare's own drafts.

In other cases, such as Hamlet, Troy Ross and Cressida, and Othello, Shakespeare revised the text in the middle of the quarto and folio. The folio version of King Lear was so different from the quartorial published in 1608 that Oxford Shakespeare published both editions because they could not be combined into a single edition without ambiguity.

Between 1593 and 1594, when theatres were closed due to the plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual themes: Venus and Adonis and Ruchris, to which he dedicated to Henry Rheathley, Earl of Southampton.

In Venus and Adonis, the innocent Adonis rejects Venus's sexual demands, while in Rucres's Loss of Virginity, his chaste wife, Rucres, is raped by the lustful Tarquin.

Influenced by Ovid's Metamorphosis, the poem expresses the crime and moral confusion that originated in desire. Both poems were popular and were reprinted several times during Shakespeare's lifetime.

The third narrative poem, "The Lover's Complaint", tells the story of a young woman who regrets being seduced by a suitor and is included in the first edition of the Sonnets, published in 1609.

Most scholars now accept the idea that Lover's Complaint was written for Shakespeare. Critics believe that the poem's excellent qualities are undermined by its heavy results. "The Phoenix and the Turtlefish" mourns the death of the legendary immortal bird and the loyal turtlefish of his lover.

In 1599, two early 14-line poems, No. 138 and No. 144, were included in The Ardent Pilgrims, which bear Shakespeare's name but without his permission. (To be continued......)