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WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE? 37 extant plays (one or more others missing) 19 published in Quartos during his lifetime 36 published in Folio in 1623 2 long.

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1 WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE? 37 extant plays (one or more others missing) 19 published in Quartos during his lifetime 36 published in Folio in 1623 2 long narrative poems several shorter poems 154 sonnets

2 Elizabeth I reigned 1558-1603

3 James I reigned 1603-1625

4 First Folio, 1623First Folio, 1623

5 The folio’s 3 genres:

6 The Rose Theatre 1587

7 Blue Boar Inn Yard c.1850

8 drawing of the original Globe Theatre

9 Rebuilt Globe Theatre in London (1997)

10 (rebuilt Globe Theatre)(rebuilt Globe Theatre) the “heavens”: painted roof over the stage balcony – used for playing space, and music 3 doorways to “tiring house” behind stage

11 Shakespeare at the Globe today thrust stage 3-tiered galleries on 3 sides “groundlings” stand in the pit

12 View from an upper galleryView from an upper gallery

13 empty galleries and yardempty galleries and yard

14 View from second galleryView from second gallery

15 Musicians above the stageMusicians above the stage

16 Location of Elizabethan playhouses

17 Chandos portrait (17 th century)


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