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