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William Shakespeare’s Life & Times 1564-1616. In his 52 years of life William Shakespeare transformed himself from the son of a small-town glovemaker to a favorite playwright of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Today he is celebrated as the most popular writer in the English language.
- Early Life
William Shakespeare’s Life & Times Early Life. Early Life....
- Actors
At the beginning of the Restoration period, Charles granted...
- Women in Shakespeare's Writing
The majority of Shakespeare’s major female characters are...
- Top 10 Shakespeare Quotes
Shakespeare is the most quoted author of all time. Most...
- Sexuality in Shakespeare's England
Just as the term “heterosexuality” didn’t exist in...
- Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare reflected Elizabethan standards of...
- Tragedy
For one thing, Shakespeare’s tragedies frequently contain...
- A Glossary of Common Shakespearean Words
Shakespeare frequently uses words which no longer exist in...
- Early Life
William Shakespeare’s Life & Times Early Life. Early Life. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small town in the middle of the English countryside. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover and public servant with social ambitions, as suggested by his marriage to Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer.
During his lifetime Shakespeare’s fame as a poet equaled and perhaps outstripped his fame as a playwright. His most popular poem was Venus and Adonis. It was reprinted nine times in his lifetime, and there are more surviving contemporary references to Venus and Adonis than to any of Shakespeare’s plays. The poem was most likely written in ...
As in many of his plays, Shakespeare manipulates time in Julius Caesar, both for dramatic convenience and to make the setting less foreign to his audience. For example, the time between Caesar's triumphal march with Pompey's sons and the defeat of Cassius and Brutus was around two years in real life, but Shakespeare compresses it into two months.
Historical Context of King Lear. In the period in which King Lear was written—from 1604 to 1607—King James VI, King of Scotland and England, was trying to persuade English Parliament to approve the union of the two countries into one nation. (It was James who first used the term "Great Britain" to describe the unity of the Celtic and Saxon ...
Brief Biography of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in 1564. His father was a glove-maker and assemblyman in Stratford-upon-Avon, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner. At 18, Shakespeare wed a woman eight years his senior, Anne Hathaway; just six months after their marriage, Hathaway gave birth to a daughter.
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The order in which Shakespeare’s plays were written and performed is highly uncertain. His earliest plays seem to date from the late 1580s to the mid-1590s and include the comedies Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; history plays based on the lives of the English kings ...
