There are 37 known Shakespeare plays that are still performed to this day. When Shakespeare wrote his plays, they had to be versatile for staging because troupes toured with them and they were acted in a variety of places. The settings may have looked very poor or they may have looked as if they belonged to royalty. This is because they could've been staged in bawdy inns or at royal palaces. Mostly, stages did not have any setting and were either only bare or had only a table and a chair or maybe a few chairs. Troupes were not required to travel with settings for the stage.
Shakespearean plays were also common in the theatres built permanently. Some of these theatres were The Theatre, The Globe, The Rose, and The Curtain. In Shakespeare's day, playwrights did not keep the rights to their plays. Instead, they were written on commission and sold to theatre companies or royalty. Shakespeare made money this way, but he also was partner in a theatre company and made money that way. The audiences of Shakespeare's day would often eat while watching plays. Excavations have found many types of leftovers from food.
When Shakespeare died, some people started questioning the authorship of his plays. This questioning has never gone away and some of the propsed writers of the plays are Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, and Edward de Vere. However, there are people who firmly bellieve Shakespeare authored his plays and analysis of the writing seems to support this.
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