After the success of his historical play, he wrote a tragedy called Titus Andronicus, and then The Comedy of Errors, a humorous comedy. Not many play writes wrote so many different types of plays in so short a time, but Shakespeare was certainly not like any other English play write (Timeline).
Very early in Shakespeare's career, however, many theatres closed due to the plague in England, and play writes were not in high demand. "Shakespeare then turned to another type of writing and wrote a narrative poem entitled Venus and Adonis" (Best). This was a huge success and he received praise for it by the scholars who gave him no respect as a play writes. His next poem was called Lucrece, which was just as successful as his first. In spite of his success as a poet, he gave up poetry after Lucrece was published. "He joined Lord Chamberlain's Acting Company in 1594, and for the rest of his career, he only wrote plays for this company" (Timeline). Other actors in Shakespeare's company included Will Kempe, the most popular comic of his time, and Richard Burbage, son of James Burbage, the designer of The Theatre. Other important members of the company were John Heminges, who was their permanent business manager, and Henry Condell, another actor in the company. These two men later published the first complete edition of Shakespeare's play, after Shakespeare's death (Timeline).
Shakespeare wrote many plays, which were adaptations of earlier plots. "Some of these include King John, The Taming of The Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. Some said he could turn a flat, one-sided plot into a masterpiece. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare mixes the humor of Mercutio and Juliet's nurse into a serious tragedy" (Hazlitt). Not many play writes of this time mixed comedy with tragedy, but he did this because the two elements combine in real life and he felt they were free to combine in his plays. None of the critics who had praised his poems ever mentioned his plays.