Trivia: What was the last play William Shakespeare wrote by himself?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Tempest
Henry VIII
Romeo and Juliet
The correct answer is The Tempest
So why is this answer correct? : Of his 37 plays that have survived to modernity, “The Tempest” is widely regarded (though it’s hard to be 100% certain) as William Shakespeare’s last play that he wrote by himself. (His actual last play, co-written with fellow English playwright John Fletcher, is “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”) Scholars believe the parting words of Prospero, the old magician in “The Tempest,” serve as Shakespeare’s own farewell.