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Shakespeares Narrative Poems
Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; A Lover’s Complaint
Sonnet Total
154
What is the source material for Macbeth?
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (Holinshed’s Chronicles)
The lost work of Shakespeare?
Cardenio
When another author writes in someones work
Interpolations
Word occuring only once in a body of text
Hapex legomenon
Longest hapex legonmenon
Occured in ‘Love’s Labor Lost’ (t honorificabilitudinitatibus)
Shakespeare Birth
April 23, 1564
Shakespeare’s Death
April 23, 1616
A Shakespeare Contemporary
Christopher Marlow, born in the same year, died much earlier
Wife
Anne Hathaway
Where was Hathaway born?
Shottery
What was Hathaway left in the will?
Second Best Bed
Dark Lady
Emilia Lanier
John Shakespeare’s birth place
Snitterfield
What did John do
was a brogger– illegal wool trader
Significant things about Shakespeare’s mum
botn in Wilmcote; last name Arden for the Arden editions
Who is Edmund Shakespeare?
Eighth child, buried in Southwark Cathedral
Where do direct decendants of Shakespeare come from?
Joan Shakespeare and Willian Hart
Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratford-upon-Avon; Henly Street
Shakespeare’s kids
Susannah, Hamnet, Judith (Hamnet died)
Who did Susannah marry
John Hall; lived in Hall’s Croft three minutes from Holy Trinity Church where Shakes is buried
Shakespeare’s granddaughter
Elizabeth, Susannah’s daughter, married Thomas Nash
Sir Thomas Lucy
Owned Charlecote Park; Shakes was allegedly poaching deer on the land; left town
