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Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia. Biographical Background  Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23 rd April, 1564  Father  Education  Marriage: (in 1585) to Anne.

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1 Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia

2 Biographical Background  Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23 rd 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

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11 Success & Fame

12 The King’s Men

13 Shakespeare Plays Development of his Art  Read or performed? Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost A Midsummer Night’s Dream

14 Historical Plays  Henry VI  Richard III

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

16 Romantic Comedies  Much Ado About Nothing  As You Like it  Twelfth Night

17 Great Tragedies Hamlet (1600-1601)

18 Othello 1603-1604

19 King Lear

20 Macbeth (1605-1606)

21 Later Plays  Henry VIII The Romances:  Freely imaginative settings & themes  Comedies or tragedies?  The Winter Tales  The Tempest

22 52 nd Birthday April 23 rd 1616

23 First Folio


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