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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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  1. Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  2. Biographical Background • Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23rd April, 1564 • Father • Education • Marriage: (in 1585) to Anne Hathaway • Children

  3. Milestones 1592: London, the launch of a career.

  4. 1593 • London theatres were closed. • Patronage by the Earl of Southampton. • The dedication of two narrative poems: Venus & Adonis , The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

  5. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men • Shakespeare became a shareholder & the principal playwright . • He became rich enough to buy a house in Stratford.

  6. 1599 The Globe Theatre

  7. Success & Fame

  8. The King’s Men

  9. Shakespeare PlaysDevelopment of his Art • Read or performed? Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  10. Historical Plays • Henry VI • Richard III

  11. Early Tragedies • 1st: Titus Andronicus (1593 or 1594) • Romeo and Juliet (1594 & 1596) • The Merchant of Venice (1597) • Julius Caesar (1599)

  12. Romantic Comedies • Much Ado About Nothing • As You Like it • Twelfth Night

  13. Great Tragedies Hamlet (1600-1601)

  14. Othello 1603-1604

  15. King Lear

  16. Macbeth (1605-1606)

  17. Later Plays • Henry VIII The Romances: • Freely imaginative settings & themes • Comedies or tragedies? • The Winter Tales • The Tempest

  18. 52nd Birthday April 23rd 1616

  19. First Folio

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