The Taming of the Shrew. Уильям Шекспир

known about Shakespeare’s private life; the facts included here are almost the only indisputable ones. The dates of Shakespeare’s plays are those on which they were first produced.

1558	Queen Elizabeth crowned.
1561	Francis Bacon born.
1564	Christopher Marlowe born.	William Shakespeare born, April 23rd, baptized April 26th.
1566		Shakespeare’s brother, Gilbert, born.
1567	Mary, Queen of Scots, deposed. James VI (later James I of England) crowned King of Scotland.
1572	Ben Jonson born. Lord Leicester’s Company (of players) licensed; later called Lord Strange’s, then the Lord Chamberlain’s and finally (under James) the King’s Men.
1573	John Donne born.
1574	The Common Council of London directs that all plays and playhouses in London must be licensed.
1576	James Burbage builds the first public playhouse, The Theatre, at Shoreditch, outside the walls of the City.
1577	Francis Drake begins his voyage round the world (completed 1580). Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland published (which Shakespeare later used extensively).
1582		Shakespeare married to Anne Hathaway.
1583	The Queen’s Company founded by royal warrant.	Shakespeare’s daughter, Susanna, born.
1585		Shakespeare’s twins, Hamnet and Judith, born.
1586	Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan ideal ‘Christian knight’, poet, patron, soldier, killed at Zutphen in the Low Countries.
1587	Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded. Marlowe’s Tamburlaine (Part I) first staged.
1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Marlowe’s Tamburlaine (Part II) first staged.
1589	Marlowe’s Jew of Malta and Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy (a ‘revenge tragedy’ and one of the most popular plays of Elizabethan times).
1590	Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Books I–III) published.
1592	Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Edward II first staged. Witchcraft trials in Scotland. Robert Greene, a rival playwright, refers to Shakespeare as ‘an upstart crow’ and ‘the only Shake-scene in a country’.	Titus Andronicus Henry VI, Parts I, II and III Richard III
1593	London theatres closed by the plague. Christopher Marlowe killed in a Deptford tavern.	Two Gentlemen of Verona Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew Love’s Labour’s Lost
1594	Shakespeare’s company becomes The Lord Chamberlain’s Men.	Romeo and Juliet
1595	Raleigh’s first expedition to Guiana. Last expedition of Drake and Hawkins (both died).	Richard II A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1596	Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Books IV–VI) published. James Burbage buys rooms at Blackfriars and begins to convert them into a theatre.	King John The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare’s son Hamnet dies. Shakespeare’s father is granted a coat of arms.
1597	James Burbage dies, his son Richard, a famous actor, turns the Blackfriars Theatre into a private playhouse.	Henry IV (Part I) Shakespeare buys and redecorates New Place at Stratford.
1598	Death of Philip II of Spain	Henry IV (Part II) Much Ado About Nothing
1599	Death of Edmund Spenser. The Globe Theatre completed at Bankside by Richard and Cuthbert Burbage.	Henry V Julius Caesar As You Like It
1600	Fortune Theatre built at Cripplegate. East India Company founded for the extension of English trade and influence in the East. The Children of the Chapel begin to use the hall at Blackfriars.	Merry Wives of Windsor Troilus and Cressida
1601		Hamlet
1602	Sir Thomas Bodley’s library opened at Oxford.	Twelfth Night
1603	Death of Queen Elizabeth. James I comes to the throne. Shakespeare’s company becomes The King’s Men. Raleigh tried, condemned and sent to the Tower
1604	Treaty of peace with Spain	Measure for Measure Othello All’s Well that Ends Well
1605	The Gunpowder Plot: an attempt by a group of Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
1606	Guy Fawkes and other plotters executed.	Macbeth King Lear
1607	Virginia, in America, colonized. A great frost in England.	Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Coriolanus Shakespeare’s daughter, Susanna, married to Dr. John Hall.
1608	The company of the Children of the Chapel Royal (who had performed at Blackfriars for ten years) is disbanded. John Milton born. Notorious pirates executed in London.	Richard Burbage leases the Blackfriars Theatre to six of his fellow actors, including Shakespeare. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1609		Shakespeare’s Sonnets published.
1610	A great drought in England	Cymbeline
1611	Chapman completes Скачать книгу В начало < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > В конец