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Page 1: William Shakespeare. To begin then with Shakespeare; he was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive

William Shakespeare

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To begin then with Shakespeare; he was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the Images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of Books to read Nature; he look'd inwards, and found her there.

John Dryden (1668)

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Birth ~ April 23, 1564

Stratford-Upon-Avon – 100 miles northwest of London

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Birth ~ April 23, 1564

Stratford-Upon-Avon – 100 miles northwest of London

John & Mary Shakespeare

Baptism Records ~ April 26th – traditional pre-date for birth

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Father ~ John ShakespeareWittawer & agricultural commodities

Climbed the government ladder

Mary Arden Shakespeare

Third or eight children, oldest son

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School ~ Grammar school (The King’s New School)

Latin – translations

Start at dawn; six days/week

“the want of his assistance at Home, forc'd his Father to withdraw him from thence.”

Church

Apprenticeship

Countryside

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From As You Like It

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,Hath not old custom made this life more sweetThan that of painted pomp? Are not these woodsMore free from peril than the envious court?Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,The seasons' difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say'This is no flattery: these are counsellorsThat feelingly persuade me what I am.'Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life exempt from public hauntFinds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones and good in every thing.I would not change it

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Anne Hathaway ~ 11/28/1582Prominent farm family outside Stratford

Eight years older than WS

Brief engagement – time to gossip

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From A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth;But either it was different in blood...Or else misgraffed in respect of years--Hermia:  O spite! too old to be engag'd to young.

From Twelfth Night

Duke:  Then let thy love be younger than thyself,Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;For women are as roses, whose fair flow'rBeing once display'd doth fall that very hour.

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Anne Hathaway ~ 11/28/1582Prominent farm family outside Stratford

Eight years older than WS

Brief engagement – time to gossip

ChildrenSusanna (1583)

Twins ~ Judith & Hamnet (1585)

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No records of any existence after twins’ baptism

Deer Poacher? Lawyer? Military assignment abroad?

Private School Master

Italian tour?

Livery (horse) worker? Scrivener?

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First documented evidence of WS since twins – first proof of his involvement in the London Theatre world

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“for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.”

Robert Green

Groats-worth of Witte

1592

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“for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.”

WS success leads to Green jealousy

WS popular/influential in the professional London theatre world

WS = “Jack of All Trades” (actor, playwright, director)

including being a “play mender”

Fame as a poet is obviously wide reaching

Henry VI, Part III popular – famous line that a competitor quotes

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How it would have joy'd brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeare in his tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the teares on ten thousand spectators at least (at severall times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.

Thomas Nash

Pierce Pennilesse

1592

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How it would have joy'd brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeare in his tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the teares on ten thousand spectators at least (at severall times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.

Talbot is a character made very famous in Henry VI, Part I

“At severall times” – important - Plays represented in “repertory”

10,000 spectators – theatre = very popular form of art in QE1

Power of the immediacy of the drama & WS talent for creating vibrant images and characters on stage.

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“Fluid” membership in traveling theatre troupes: “The Queen’s Men”, “The Pembroke Men”, “Lord Strange’s Men”

January 1593 – Theatres Closed! THE PLAGUE

Need for income, avenue of expression – cashes in on social connections

Earl of Southampton

Sonnets and lyric poetry

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Dedication of Venus & Adonis to the Earl of Southampton-1593

“I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden; only, if your Honor seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honored you with some graver labor.   But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather...”

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Dedication of The Rape of Lucrece to the Earl - 1594

The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end... The warrant I have of your honorable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance.  What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

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"As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras : so the sweet wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous & honytongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private frinds, &c."

Francis Meres

Palladis Tamia

1598

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Composing sonnets & lyric poetry

Dabbling in plays – preparing for theatre reopenings?

Summer of 1594 – Theatres Reopen!!

December 1594 – WS listed as receiving payment for two performances – documented proof of his deep involvement with heavy hitters of the time.

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – WS on his way!

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