In 1623, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeareâs fellow actors in the Lord Chamberlainâs Men, collected 36 of Shakespeareâs plays and had them published in the First Folio. Pericles, Prince of Tyre is the only play attributed to Shakespeare that did not appear in the First Folio. Richard Burbage (1567-1619), known as a method actor, played the lead roles in many of Shakespeareâs plays, Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear, as well as those written by Ben Jonson.
The evaluation of Grant's presidency can be split up into seven categories: policy leadership, crisis management, presidential appointments, foreign policy, character and integrity, public persuasion, and presidential vision. Grant did many good things for Domestic Policy in his presidency. He successfully readmitted the last four Confederate states into the Union with the help of Congress. He won the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, giving African Americans the right to vote.
In 1866 Grant was appointed General of the Armies of the United States, a position that only George Washington had held before him. When President Johnson removed his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, Grant was appointed interim Secretary. When Congress did not support his appointment, Grant resigned, causing a rift between him and Andrew Johnson. This public break strengthened Grant's position with the Republican Party. The Republican Party nominated Grant for the presidency in 1868. Because of his status as a military hero, he won by a landslide. He served for two terms and his presidency was marred with widespread corruption. Though a brilliant military commander and strategist, at politics he was a failure.