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Shakespeare’s Life (pp. 41-46 in Norton Shakespeare)

Stratford-upon Avon
April 23, 1564/1616
King’s New School
Anne Hathaway
Susanna, Judith, Hamnet
"The Lost Years"
New Place
Holy Trinity Church

Shakespeare’s World & Art (pp. 2-17, 25-28, 57-65 and handouts)

London
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
James I
Tudor
Stuart
Bubonic Plague
Reformation
Neoplatonism
hierarchy
scala naturae
Microcosm/macrocosm
4 elements
4 humours
tripartite soul
rhetoric
copia
concordia discors
Petrarch
sonnet sequence
pastoral
sumptuary laws
masking/masque

Shakespeare’s Theater  (pp.30-37, 51-57, and handouts)

mystery plays
morality plays
innyards
Bankside
masterless men/vagabonds
patronage
Lord Chamberlain’s Men
The King’s Men
James & Richard Burbage
housekeepers/shareholders
The Theatre
The Globe
tiring-house
discovery space
gallery
heavens
groundlings
bear-baiting
boy actors
Public vs. Private Stages
Blackfriars
genres: comedy, tragedy, history, romance

Shakespeare’s Texts  (pp.37-39, 65-72)

foul papers
fair copy
playbook/promptbook
Master of the Revels
Stationer’s Company Register
quarto
folio
"bad" and "good" quartos
memorial reconstruction
First (1623) Folio

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