Shakespeare's Life
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16 Terms
birthplace
Stratford-upon-avon
birth year
April 1564
death year
April 1616
school attended
“King’s New School”
married to
Anne Hathaway
Son Hamnet’s death year
1596
early 1590s — why did Shakespeare become a poet?
bubonic plague outbreak closes London Theatres
what poem did he publish in 1593?
Venus & Adonis
theatres reopen (after plague) and Shakespeare becomes a leading member of his theatre company in what year?
1594
Shakespeare’s theatre company
Lord Chamberlain’s Men
other major theatre companies
Queen’s Men (1570s-1590s) and Admiral’s Men (Lord Chamb’s rivals)
Which 2 plays were written in the late 1590s
Titus Andronicus and Romeo & Juliet
plays written from 1608-1612
“Winter’s Tale” and “The Tempest”
Historical influences on Shakespeare’s writing
Copernicus’s heliocentric model, Roman mythology and Christianity
Potential ghost-writers?
(Q Elizabeth), Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, Christopher Marlowe
monarchs during Shakespeare’s lifetime
Queen Elizabeth
1558-1603
King James I
1603-1625
(both protestant)