ENGB32H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)
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The defining year the divides shakespeare"s work is the year of 1603. 1603 marked the ascension of kings james i and the jacobean era. Before 1603, elizabeth the first ruled during the elizabethan (or tudor) era. The big question was who would succeed elizabeth after her death, as she never had any children (bearing the name the virgin queen ) James ascended to the throne surprisingly peacefully despite the worry over the throne. Another defining even for shakespeare was the death of his young son hamnet in 1601. He might have dedicated hamlet to his son; it was the first major tragedy for shakespeare to. The great 4 tragedies: hamlet, othello, macbeth, and julius caesar write. While 1603 was an important year, it is not necessarily a solid division between early and late. Shakespeare"s career lasted 20 years, and wrote some 40 plays (36 plays created entirely on his own)
