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Elizabethan Drama Mrs. Nadia
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Biographical Background Birth: Stratford-on –Avon in 23 rd April, 1564 Father Education Marriage: (in 1585) to Anne Hathaway Children
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Milestones 1592: London, the launch of a career.
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1593 London theatres were closed. Patronage by the Earl of Southampton. The dedication of two narrative poems: Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
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The Lord Chamberlain’s Men Shakespeare became a shareholder & the principal playwright. He became rich enough to buy a house in Stratford.
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1599 The Globe Theatre
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Success & Fame
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The King’s Men
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Shakespeare Plays Development of his Art Read or performed? Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Historical Plays Henry VI Richard III
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Early Tragedies 1 st : Titus Andronicus (1593 or 1594) Romeo and Juliet (1594 & 1596) The Merchant of Venice (1597) Julius Caesar (1599)
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Romantic Comedies Much Ado About Nothing As You Like it Twelfth Night
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Great Tragedies Hamlet (1600-1601)
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Othello 1603-1604
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King Lear
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Macbeth (1605-1606)
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Later Plays Henry VIII The Romances: Freely imaginative settings & themes Comedies or tragedies? The Winter Tales The Tempest
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52 nd Birthday April 23 rd 1616
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First Folio
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