Shakespeare Biography Flashcards
Shakespeare grew up in the market town of …, spent his professional life in …, and returned to Stratford a …
Stratford-upon-Avon; London; wealthy landowner
Shakespeare born in …. and died in …., buried at …. in Stratford
April 1564; April 1616; Holy Trinity Church
Shakespeare’s plays & poems are testaments to his reading of …, …, …, …, and the …. as well as his mastery of the …
Virgil; Ovid; Plutarch; Holinshed’s Chronicles; Bible; English language
Shakespeare likely went to … for education
King’s New School in Stratford
several latin texts that Shakespeare used repeatedly in writing his plays and poems were texts that schoolboys
memorized and recited in King’s New School
Since the records of the Stratford “grammar school” do not survive, we cannot prove that Shakespeare
attended the school
Every indication– his father’s position as an … and … of Stratford, Shakespeare’s knowledge of … classics, scenes in plays that recall … suggest that he did attend the school
alderman; bailiff; latin; grammar-school experiences
we lack accepted documentation about shakespeare’s life after his … ended and his … life in london began
schooling; professional
shakespeare married in … at age …. to …. and had his daughter … in …. and twins … and … in …
1582; 18; anne hathaway; susanna; 1583; judith; hamnet; 1585
by …. shakespeare had achieved some prominence in london as both an … and a …
1592; actor; playwright
in 1592, …. published a book attacking an actor who had the audacity to write …. and who was “in his own conceit the only …. in a country.”
Robert Greene; blank-verse drama; shake-scene
greene’s attack targeted …, indicated by his use of a …. of a line from one of shakespeare’s early plays. he is infuriated that a shake-scene successfully competed with … like himself
shakespeare; parody; university-educated dramatists
Shakespeare became a published poet in
1593
in 1593, shakespeare published his long narrative poem… and in 1594, he followed it with …., both of which were dedicated to the .. of …
Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; earl; South-ampton
earl of south-ampton (….) may have become shakespeare’s …
henry wriothesley; patron
records for december … show shakespeare to be a leading member of the …
1594; Lord Chamberlain’s Men
For Lord Chamberlain’s Men, renamed …., Shakespeare served as …, …., and …
King’s Men; principal actor; dramatist; shareholder
shakespeare remained as leading member of the lord cchamberlain’s men for maybe about … years
20
in the 1590s, shakespeare wrote his plays on …. as well as several … and at least two …
english history; comedies; tragedies
these histories, comedies, and tragedies are the plays credited to him in 1598 in a work, …, that n one chapter compares English writers with “…, …, and … poets”
Palladis Tamia; greek; latin; italian
Francis Meres, author of Palladis Tamia, claims that Shakespeare is comparable to the Latin dramatists … for … and … for …, and calls him “the most excellent in both kinds for the stage”
Seneca; tragedy; Plautus; comedy
since meres mentions sheakespeare’s “sugared sonnets” it is assumed that many of shakespeare’s sonnets were written in the …, although they were published in …
1590s; 1609
around the time that meres wrote palladis tamia, hamnet
dies
in 1599, shakespeare’s company built
the globe theater
plays that are considered by many to be shakespeare’s major tragedies (…, …, …, and …) were written while the company was … in this …, as were such comedies as … and …
hamlet; othello; king lear; macbeth; resident; theory; twelfth night; measure for measure
many of shakespeare’s plays were performed at … both for … and for … after her death in …; some were presented at the … (residences of london’s …); and some were performed in other …, at …., and at … when they went on tour
court; Queen Elizabeth I; King James I; 1603; inns of court; legal societies; towns; universities; great houses
otherwise, his plays from … to … were, as far as is known, performed only at the …
1599; 1608; globe
between 1608 and 1612, shakespeare wrote several plays, including … and …, presumably for the company’s new indoor …
the winter’s tale; the tempest; Blackfriars theater
shakespeare wrote very little after …, the year in which he probably wrote …. (it was at a performance of this play in 1613 that the globe … and …)
1612; King Henry VIII; caught fire; burned to the ground
hamnet died in
1596
during his years in london, shakespeare presumably derived income from the acting company’s … as well as his own career as an …, sale of his …. to the company, and after 1599, from his shares as an … of the …
profits; actor; play manuscripts; owner; Globe
shakespeare’s growing wealth and reputation likely played a part in inclining the Crown to give his father (john) the … that he had long sought. given in …
coat of arms; 1596
shakespeare died in … on …
stratford; april 23, 1616
seven years after his death, shakespeare’s collected plays were published as …, now known as …
Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies; the First Folio
the discovery, translation, and printing of … and … were making available a set of works and worldviews that interacted complexly with … and …. this provided energy for the period’s amazing dramatic and literary output and fed directly into shakespeare’s …
greek; roman classics; christian texts; beliefs; plays
ghost in hamlet is complicated because he is a figure from …- the spirit of the dead returning to …- who at the same time inhabits a … (or …)
roman tragedy; seek revenge; christian hell; purgatory
hamlet’s description of humankind reflets at one moment the … at …., and at the next, the …. of human …
neoplatonic wonderment; mankind; christian disparagement; sinners
copernicus earlier theorized that earth revolved as a planet …. this was confirmed through the creation of …
around the sun; galileo’s telescope
troubled by …., by …, by recurring … of the …, london was a mecca for the … and the .., and for those who sought … at …, or power in … or … or …
overcrowding; poverty; epidemics of the plague; wealthy; aristocratic; advancement court; government; finance; trade
shakespeare was a voracious
reader
until the late … century, the shakespeare who lived in most biographies was the creation of … and …
18th; legend; tradition
this legendary shakespeare apparently so pleased queen elizabeth with Falstaff in … and …, that she demanded a play about …, and demanded that it be written in …, which is why … exists
1 and 2 Henry IV; Falstaff in love; 14 days; The Merry Wives of Windsor
some people since the mid-nineteenth century have argued that william shakespeare could not have
written plays credited to him
they claim that his works could have been authored by people like .., …, … (earl of …), and …
queen elizabeth; sir francis bacon; edward de ere; oxford; christopher marlowe
the documents that exist that provide evidence for … tie him inextricably to the body of plays and poems bearing his name
the facts of shakespeare’s life
