The Age of Shakespeare

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1. AGE OF SHAKESPEARE

2. MAJOR CONTENT 1 2 3 4 Sayings Early Life Career Literary Life Works Contemporary Writers 5 6

3. Ben Jonson says, "Shakespeare was not of an age, but of all ages." He is eternal and universal. William Shakespeare

4. Life of Shakespeare

5. Life of Shakespeare

6. Career

7. 1 st Period 2 nd Period 3 rd Period 4 th Period 24 years (1588 - 161 3 ) divided into four sub-periods. First Period ( 1588-1596 ) Second Period (1596-1600) Third Period (1601-1608) Fourth Period (1609-1613) Literary Life

8. FIRST PERIOD

9. SECOND PERIOD

10. THIRD PERIOD

11. FOURTH PERIOD

12. famous works Major Tragedies Sonnets Two Categories of Works Works of Shakespeare Plays sources

13. Two categories of Works

14. Some of the famous works

15. Four Major Tragedies

16. Sonnets

17. COMIC PLAYS All’s Well That Ends Well The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost The Merchant of Venice Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale As You Like It Cymbeline Measure for Measure Pericles Prince of Tyre The Tempest

18. TRAGIC PLAYS Romeo and Juliet Macbeth King Lear Hamlet Othello Titus Andronicus The tragedy of Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Cymbeline The life of Timon of Athens The history of Trolius and Cressida

19. HISTORICAL PLAYS King John Edward III Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III (also considered a tragedy) Henry VIII

20. Contemporary Writers