. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. is works. He went to London as an impressionableyouth, and there came in contact with the full current ofEnglish life in one of its greatest periods. In the taverns me -*3&. m m SHAKESPEARES BIRTHPLACE he would meet men who had fought with Raleigh or sailedround the world with Drake, or had helped defeat theSpanish Armada. The court of Elizabeth drew to itselfthe nobles, poets, wits, and adventurers of the kingdom;th
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. is works. He went to London as an impressionableyouth, and there came in contact with the full current ofEnglish life in one of its greatest periods. In the taverns me -*3&. m m SHAKESPEARES BIRTHPLACE he would meet men who had fought with Raleigh or sailedround the world with Drake, or had helped defeat theSpanish Armada. The court of Elizabeth drew to itselfthe nobles, poets, wits, and adventurers of the kingdom;this brilliant society Shakespeare saw. His own companyoften acted at court. To him kings and queens, arch-bishops and earls, great captains and chief justices ofEngland, were not mere names in the history book, buta part of the life he saw and knew. And so he wrotehistorical plays of such truth and vividness that from them WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 29 we may gain a better knowledge of England than frommany histories. His works comprise thirty-seven plays, two long narra-tive poems, Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, and about onehundred and fifty sonnets. The sonnets are among the. ANN HATHAWAYS COTTAGE most perfect things of their kind in English deal with a poets love for a friend and for awoman ; it has been conjectured that they reflect his ownlife. The plays may be divided into four groups, correspond-ing to periods in Shakespeares dramatic the first period, 1588-1594, we have old plays touchedup by Shakespeare, such as Titus Andronicus and KingHenry VI. His first purely original work was in comedy :Loves Labour s Lost and The Comedy of Errors. These areall apprentice work; but in the latter part of the period hewrote Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet, andRichard III— all before he was thirty. To the second 3<D THE ELIZABETHAN AGE period, 1595-1600, belong the most famous of the comedies:The Merchant of Venice, TJie Taming of the Shrew, TheMe
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