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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

  •  He belongs to the renaissance period (Elizabethan + Jacobean age)
  •  William Shakespeare is known as father of English drama
  •   He is also known as bard of avon 
  •   He considered as England's national poet
  •   Born on – 23 April 1564
  •   Baptized 0n- 26 April 1564
  •   Died on- 23 April 1616
  •   Birth place – Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire England
  •   Father name- John Shakespeare
  •   Mother name- Mary  Arden
  •   At the age of 18 Shakespeare got married
  •   He started his carrier as an actor in lord chamberlains men
  •   At the age of 18 Shakespeare got married
  •   He started his carrier as an actor in lord chamberlains men
  •   In the reign of James 1(1603) Lord chamberlains men was turned into kings men
  •   He wrote 37 plays , 154 sonnet and 5 poems in which two are long narrative poems (Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece)
  •  Standard form of writing –Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
  •  His great tragedies- (HOKM) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
  •   He gave maximum number of quotations

Shakespeares' literary career can be divided into 4 parts  

1)      1585-1594 (9 year)

2)      1595-1600 (6 year)

3)      1601-1608 (7 year)    (after 1603 Jacobean age started)

4)      1608-1613 (5 year)

POEMS OF William Shakespeare

•       Venus and Adonis

  • First publication of Shakespeare (1593)
    •    Venus- goddess of love,
    •    Adonis- young man who go for hunting
  • The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
  • Poem addressed to earl of Southampton
  • Inspired by legend of good women

•       Passionate pilgrims (1599)

Ø  It is a collection of 20 poems.

Ø  05 poems by Shakespeare and other by Thomas Heywood.

Ø  Published by William Jaggard.

•       Phoenix and turtle

Ø  1st great published metaphysical poem

•        A Lovers complaint

Ø  Published as a part of the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare’s sonnet (example of female voiced complaint)

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Ø  Henry 8th was an unfinished play by Shakespeare.

Ø   Henry 8th was completed by John Fletcher.

Ø   Pericles was a play by Shakespeare which was not included in his first folio.

Ø    1st folio- 1623

Ø   2nd folio- 1632

Ø   3rd folio-  1663

Ø   4th folio -  1685

Ø  Nicholas Rowe published the first life of Shakespeare in 1709.

Ø   Globe and Black Friar theatre are associated with Shakespeare

Ø   “Loves Labour Lost” is a farce full of “boisterous laugh”.

Ø   sexual possessiveness is the theme of “Midsummer Nights Dream” and Othello.

Ø   The swan song of Shakespeare is “The Tempest”.

Ø   In 1609 sonnet of Shakespeare were published.

Ø  “The Mousetrap” used by Shakespeare in Hamlet for- The play within a play in Hamlet..

Ø  “ An upstart crow with beautiful feathers”- Robert Greene

Ø  The Shakespearean tragedy was completed by a.c Bradley (1904)

 

 

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