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Tema 44- Shakespeare y su época. Obras más representativas.

Terms in this set (18)

Shakespeare's baptism
April 26, 1564
Shakespeare's death
April 23, 1616
Shakespeare's marriage
He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18. She was 26, or 8 years older than him.
Elizabeth I
Queen of England and Ireland between 1558 and 1603
Edward VI
Henry VIII's only son, who took England in a more Protestant direction during his short reign 1547-1553
Mary I
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who reverted back to Catholicism in England for five years and during this reign. Married her nephew Philip II.
Reigned 1553-1558
University Wits
Young univeristy people who came to London in the late 1580s and undertook careers as professional writers. They played an important part in the development of great literature, especially drama, that characterized the latter part of Elizabeth's reign. Chrisopher Marlowe was the most important. Others were Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nash, and Thomas Kyd.
Early comedies 1592-1594
The Comedy of Errors 1592
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1594
The Taming of the Shrew 1594
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
The great comedies
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1595
The Merchant of Venice 1596
Much Ado About Nothing 1598
As you like it 1599
The Merry Wives of Windsor 1599
Twelfth Night 1601
Dark comedies
Troilus and Cressida 1602
All's Well That Ends Well 1602
Measure for Measure 1604
Late comedies
Pericles 1608
Cymbeline 1610
Winter's Tale 1611
The Tempest 1611
History plays
Henry VI (part 1) 1591
Henry VI (part 2) 1592
Henry VI (part 3) 1592
Richard III 1593
Richard II 1595
King John 1596
Henry IV (part 1) 1597
Henry IV (part 2) 1598
Henry IV (part 2) 1598
Henry V 1599
Henry VIII 1613
Tragedies
Titus Andronicus 1593
Romeo and Juliet 1595
Julius Caesar 1599
Hamlet 1601
Othello 1604
King Lear 1605
Macbeth 1606
Timon of Athens 1607
Anthony and Cleopatra 1607
Coriolanus 1608
James VI
Scotland King, declared King of England by will of Elizabeth, first Stuart ruler, viewed authority superior to Parliament, "divine right" 1603-1625
Sonnets
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
published in 1609
154 sonnets.
Young man 1-126
Dark lady 127-154
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Playwright who wrote:
-Jew of Malta
-Doctor Faustus
-Tamburlaine
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Poet:
The Faerie Queene: allegoric poem about queen Elizabeth I
Amoretti
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