RICHARD 111 WILLIAM SHAKSEPARE LIFE

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  • NO PERSONAL RECORDS 
  • contemporaray dramatises=can darw outline of pbulic life but not private
  • lack of first hand evidence-vant look for clues from chcracetrs as renaissance plays=not subejctive and not designed to revale writer pwrosnality 
  • born 1564 stratford upon avon 
  • father john shaksepare properous glove merchant 
  • 1568 MAYOR OF STRATFORD 
  • 1577 father married mary arden
  • 1582 WILLIAM 18 MARRIED ANNE HATHAWAY 26
  • 1592-HE APPARED IN HISROICAL RECORD WHEN MENTIONED AS LONDON PLAYWRIGHT IN PAMPHLET BY DRAMATIST ROBERT GREENE 
  • 1585-1592-ALOT OF AMBIGUITY ABOUT HIM 'LOST YEARS'
  • 1587 left startford 
  • next 20 yrs london 
  • chief fame as dramatist 
  • 1594-wrpte exclusisvelt for lord chmaberlains men
  • plays very pop
  • becamne sharehold in theatre company 
  • 1603-enjoyed patronage of JAMES 1 AS KINGS MEN BROUGH ALOT LAND 
  • 1616 DIED 

SHAKESPEARE AND ENG REANISSANCE 

  • arrived in london at time eliz ear become known as 'golden age' of literature 
  • term used to decribe period 1580-1603-later paet of this era=jacobean 
  • james 1 1603-1625
  • he part of of rejuventaing movement 'reanissance'-denotes reveival and rediercetion of artistsic and intellectual endevaour in northwestern europe 
  • first detectable early 16th…

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