shakespeare background quiz

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April 23 1564-April 23 1616

Shakespeare’s birthday and date of death

1585-1592

7 “dark” years

1592

Henry VI (Shakespeare’s first play) written

1599

First Globe theatre opens, Shakespeare becomes a sharer (business partner, almost an investor of sorts involved in the theatre’s operations in addition to playwriting)

1594-1601

Early theatre period

The Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Henry VI

1601-1608

Middle theatre period

Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

1608-1616

Late theatre period

The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, sonnets published

1613

The year the first Globe burned down

1623

The year the first folio edition is published

Anne Boleyn

Henry VIII’s second wife, beheaded
Mother to Elizabeth I

Enclosure

Public, shared property became ‘enclosed’ or made private, resulting in a large portion of the rural population flocking to urban areas/cities (such as London) in search of homes and jobs

Poor Laws

Sumptuary Laws

Primogeniture