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

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