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.
President Polk was willing to go to war over Oregon rather than accept a divide at the 49th parallel. When Mexico refused a U.S. offer to purchase the disputed territories, Polk ordered Taylor's army in Texas to enter Mexican territory.