Shakespeare+and+The+King's+Men

Joe Stay Hour 3 [|This is where I'm at.]

The above link will take you to a wonderful website ripe with information regarding William Shakespeare as a whole. It is basically a biography of the famous writer, though there is one aspect of it I found very interesting, and very important to Shakespeare's work. The King's Men, the acting group that portrayed Shakespeare's plays, I believe is important to know about when studying and analyzing William Shakespeare's work because one must consider that Shakespeare wrote these plays so as they could be acted out on a simple stage with whatever materials they had back in the late 16th early 17th centuries. We can get into the mindframe of Shakespeare and see the play how he saw it being acted out. Hamlet, for instance, we see in a film adaptation, which is a modern-day director's stab at trying to get inside the mind of William Shakespeare and how he would go about presenting this story, with, of course, more modern conveniences such as camera and quick scene changes. In his plays, Shakespeare also often played a guest role, such as the ghost in the aforementioned Hamlet, which may have been just something fun for him to do, or maybe he played the roles of the characters he deemed the most important. Therefore, we can see which characters were most important to Shakespeare and to his stories.