Shakspeare's wife survived him, and died in 1623.
LITERARY HABITUDES .-- Such, in brief, is the personal history of Shakspeare: of his literary habitudes we know nothing.

The exact dates of the appearance of his plays are, in most cases, doubtful.

Many of these had been printed singly during his life, but the first complete edition was published in folio, in 1623.

It contains _thirty-six_ plays, and is the basis of the later editions, which contain thirty-_seven_.

Many questions arise which cannot be fully answered: Did he write all the plays contained in the volume?
Are the First Part of Henry VI., Titus Andronicus,[31] and Pericles his work?
Did he not write others not found among these?
Had he, as was not uncommon then and later, collaboration in those which bear his name?
Was he a Beaumont to some Fletcher, or a Sackville to some Norton?
Upon these questions generations of Shakspearean scholars have expended a great amount of learned inquiry ever since his day, and not without results: it is known that many of his dramas are founded upon old plays, as to plots; and that he availed himself of the labor of others in casting his plays.
But the real value of his plays, the insight into human nature, the profound philosophy, "the myriad-soul" which they display, are Shakspeare's only.