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1558
Elizabethan Era
No women in plays - Boys played the parts
The drama appeared to all social classes
Broad themes
Jo literacy required
Language easier than poetry
Principle of order - man is the centre
Heroes have passion and doubts
Tragic flaw -
1564
Shakespeare birth
Shakespeares birth in Stratford-upon-Avon i Warwickshire south for Birmingham - worlds most popular author and worlds greatest dramatist. His poems is about love.
Was a part of the Lord Chamberlain's Men --> Globe Theatre
- William was the patron - they sponsor the artists
- Poet, playwright, actor -
Romeo and Juliet
The tragerie is written in 1597 -
Sonnet 18
Love - "you" person, sonnet with the 5 feet (14 lines, rhyme scheme, conjunction, love -
Sonnet 130
14 lines, rhyme-scheme, about love, "my love" is the receiver -
Shakespeare dead
Died in Stratford-upon-Avon, Great Britain.