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- early 17th century in England
- many new inventions
- travel reports inspired people
- many infectious diseases
-> writers want to distract people from demands of the time
-> olds do not like witchcraft and ghost in Shakespeare

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-more than 30 plays (comedies, tragedies, history plays)
-154 sonnets
-several long poeams
-timeless characters&themes
-turned to operas&movies

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- Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
- reign: various conflicts, achievment in arts
-Protestant reformation against return to Catholicism
-> spies and informants: find catholics
- executions in public (1500-2000 a year)
- "golden age": relative stability, economic growth, flowering of theatre, literature and music

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-born on April 1564 in Stratford upon Avon
-Father: glover; mother: landed gentry
-visited grammar school (first contact with clasical ancient literature)
-November 1583: married Anne Hathaway
-1583/85: Susanna / twins Judith&Hamnet were born
-may have travelled to Italy
-1586-87: toured with the Queen's Men (theater company)
-1592: person of interest in London (pamphlet -> lack of university education)

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-new to the age
-1567: first custom-built theatre in London
-three types of theatre:
->amphi (open roof)
->indoor playhouse (staged in winter)
-> inn yards
-popular (payed admission fees)