2. His career was bagun before
Shakespeare
His plays are quite different in style and
content from Shalekespeare’s
His language was classically based::poetic
style influenced byuniversity studies ofLatin
and Greekdramatic poetry
The theme is
always power
3. PLAYS:
The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage
Tamburlaine the Great
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
The Jew of Malta
The Tragedy of Edward II
The Massacre at Paris
POETRIES
Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
TRANSLATION
Ovid's Amores
First Book of Lucan's Pharsalia
4. Born: April 23, 1564 Died: April 23, 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, England Stratford-upon-Avon, England
.
His mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner from a
neighboring village
His father, John, was a maker of gloves and a trader in farm produce. John
also held a number of responsible positions in Stratford's government and
served as mayor in 1569.
he probably attended the Stratford grammar school and studied the
classics, Latin grammar and literature. It is believed that he had to
discontinue his education at about thirteen in order to financially help his
father. At eighteen he married Ann Hathaway. They had three children,
Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.He was almost the only great writer of this period who did not have a
university education. Shakespeare’s characters seak the same language as
the audienceBlack period (1598-1607)
Most of Shakespeare’s great tragedies were written in these years.
Little is known about his own life.
His son, Hamnet, died in the age of 10 in 1596. This may have influenced
his black period, when many of his plays concern fathers and children,
just like Hamlet.
5. Titus Andronicus first performed in 1594 (printed in
1594)
Romeo and Juliet 1594-95 (1597)
Hamlet 1600-01 (1603)
Julius Caesar 1600-01 (1623)
Othello 1604-05 (1622)
Antony and Cleopatra 1606-07 (1623),
King Lear 1606 (1608)
Coriolanus 1607-08 (1623)
Timon of Athens 1607-08 (1623)
Macbeth 1611-1612 (1623)
6. King Henry VI Part 1 1592 (printed in 1594)
King Henry VI Part 2 1592-93 (1594)
King Henry VI Part 3 1592-93 (1623)
King John 1596-97 (1623)
King Henry IV Part 1 1597-98 (1598)
King Henry IV Part 2 1597-98 (1600)
King Henry V 1598-99 (1600)
Richard II 1600-01 (1597)
Richard III 1601 (1597)
King Henry VIII 1612-13 (1623)
7. Taming of the Shrew first
performed 1593-94 (1623),
Comedy of Errors 1594 (1623),
Two Gentlemen of Verona
1594-95 (1623),
Love's Labour's Lost 1594-95
(1598),
Midsummer Night's Dream
1595-96 (1600),
Merchant of Venice 1596-1597
(1600),
Much Ado About Nothing
1598-1599 (1600),
As You Like It 1599-00 (1623),
• Merry Wives of Windsor
1600-01 (1602),
• Troilus and Cressida 1602
(1609),
• Twelfth Night 1602 (1623),
• All's Well That Ends Well
1602-03 (1623),
• Measure for Measure 1604
(1623),
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1608-
09 (1609),
• Tempest (1611),
• Cymbeline 1611-12 (1623),
• Winter's Tale 1611-12 (1623).
8. Several plays produced at the end of Elizabeth's reign are
often grouped as Shakespeare's "problem plays." They are
not easily categorized as either tragedies or comedies. All's
Well That Ends Well (1602) is a romantic comedy with
qualities that seem bitter to many critics because it
presents romantic relations between men and women in a
harsh light. Troilus and Cressida (1602), is a brilliant,
sardonic (skeptically humorous), and disillusioned piece
on the Trojan War. Measure for Measure (1604) focuses on
the link between political power and romantic desire.
9. Come after Shakespeare
many of his early plays
caused controversey. Thus
he was put in jail more than
once
more success in
comedies than tragedies
his most popular play is
Every Man in His Homour
Most of his best known
works come after the death of
Queen Elizabeth in 1603
10. I: To The Reader
II: To My Book
III: To My Bookseller
IV: To King James
V: On the Union
VI: To Alchemists
VII: On the New Hot-
House
VIII: On a Robbery
IX: To All, To Whom I
Write
X: To My Lord Ignorant
XI: On Something That
Walks Somewhere
XII: On Lieutenant Shift
XIII: To Doctor Empiric
XIV: To William Camden
XV: On Court-Worm
XVI: To Brainhardy
XVII: To the Learned Critic
XVIII: To My Mere English
Censurer
XIX: On Sir Cod the Perfumed
XX: To the Same. [Sir Cod the
Perfumed]
XXI: On Reformed Gam'ster
XXII: On My First Daughter
XXIII: To John Donne
XXIV: To the Parliament
XXV: On Sir Voluptuous Beast
XXVI: On the Same
XXVII: On Sir John Roe
XXVIII: On Don Surly
11. Thomas Middleton was the son of a London master bricklayer
He was educated first at Queen's College,Oxford, and was then
admitted at Gray's Inn in 1593
He published three volumes of verse by 1600, and it is believed that he
had already begun to write for the stage at that time
Middleton died of natural causes at Newington Butts and was buried
there on July 4, 1627.
His comedy called city comedies.
They are set in london and filled with local characters,
tradesmen and families.
- A Mad World
- My Masters
- A Trick to Catch the Old One
His tragedies are dark, violent and complex
They explore themes of madness, politics and revenge.
- The Revenger’s Tragedy
- The Changeling
- Women Beware Women
- A game at chess
Comedies
Tragedies
12. born in London about the year 1552
He was known as The Prince of Poets in the Elizabethan
Era
The Faerie Queene,
published in the 1590
his great national epic to celebrate Queen Elizabeth.
Used a new verse form, called Spenserian stanza, of nine lines
rhyming ababbcbcc, the last line longer than the first eight
On the 16th of January 1599 he died at Westminster, ruined
in fortune, if not heart-broken, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey, near his master Chaucer
13. George Herbert
George Herbert was
born in Montgomery,
Wales, on April 3, 1593,
the fifth son of
Richard and Magdalen
Newport Herbert
He was also a
churchman.
Most of his poems
were first published in
1633, shortly after his
death at he age of 39.
John Donne
He was one of the
most famous
churchman of his
time, and wrote poems
from the 1590, but his
poems were not
pubished until 1633,
two years after his
death.
Donne was born in
London to a
prominent Roman
Catholic family but
converted to
Anglicanism during
the 1590s
They are known as
metaphysical poets.
They often wrote
about religious
theme, dissccusing
their personal
relations with God.
Also, they were not
afraid to use their
poetry to face the
intellectual,
emotional and
spiritual problems of
the age.
14. Marlowe was wholly an Elizabethan
Shakespeare was half Elizabethan and half Jacobean
Jonson’s best works are mostly Jacobean
After the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, the plays written during James
VI of Scotland became King James I of England are called Jacobean
15. PROSE IN ELIZABETHEN AGE:
FICTION NON-FICTION
The fiction of the age of Elizabeth is
generally "romantic" in nature in the
sense that it is of the kind of romance.
The romances of Lyly-, Greene, and Lodge
The pastoral romance of Sir Philip Sidney
The picaresque novel of Nashe
The realistic novel of Delony.
Richard Hooker (15547-1600):
the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy is
the greatest of the non-fictional
prose works of the Elizabethan age.
Bacon (1561-1626):
his style coupe or anti-Ciceronian
style is exactly opposite to Hooker's
Ciceronian style