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Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia. William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Biographical Background. Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23 rd April, 1564 Father Education Marriage: (in 1585) to Anne Hathaway Children. Milestones. 1592: London, the launch of a career. 1593.
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Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Biographical Background • Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23rd April, 1564 • Father • Education • Marriage: (in 1585) to Anne Hathaway • Children
Milestones 1592: London, the launch of a career.
1593 • London theatres were closed. • Patronage by the Earl of Southampton. • The dedication of two narrative poems: Venus & Adonis , The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men • Shakespeare became a shareholder & the principal playwright . • He became rich enough to buy a house in Stratford.
1599 The Globe Theatre
Shakespeare PlaysDevelopment of his Art • Read or performed? Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Historical Plays • Henry VI • Richard III
Early Tragedies • 1st: Titus Andronicus (1593 or 1594) • Romeo and Juliet (1594 & 1596) • The Merchant of Venice (1597) • Julius Caesar (1599)
Romantic Comedies • Much Ado About Nothing • As You Like it • Twelfth Night
Great Tragedies Hamlet (1600-1601)
Later Plays • Henry VIII The Romances: • Freely imaginative settings & themes • Comedies or tragedies? • The Winter Tales • The Tempest
52nd Birthday April 23rd 1616