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William Shakespeare At the Age
of 18
•Hamnet died at the age of just 11 years old. There were constant
outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague, during Elizabethan times
• August 11, 1596 Hamnet caught and died of the deadly disease
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William Shakespeare
London and Theatrical Career
o1592 Shakespeare was a playwright in London.
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Death of William
Shakespeare
oHe died on April 23, 1616 apparently from an infection
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Works
Shakespearean Comedy:
o All's Well That Ends Wellá *Much Ado Bout Anything
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Shakespearean History
oKing John
oRichard II
o Henry V
oRichard III
o Henry VIIIÜ
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Shakespearean Tragedy
• Romeo and Juliet * Coriolanus
•Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens
• Julius Caesar * Macbeth
• Hamlet * Troilus and Cressidaá
•King Lear *Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra * Cymbeline
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England
oEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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•The area now called England has been settled
by people of various cultures for about 35,000
years,but it takes its name from the Angles,
one of the Germanic tribes who settled during
the 5th and 6th centuries.
• England became a unified state in AD 927,
and since the Age of Discovery, which began
during the 15th century,
•has had a significant cultural and legal impact
on the wider world.
•The English language, the Anglican Church,
and English lawóthe basis for the common law
legal systems of many other countries around
the worldódeveloped in England, and the
country's parliamentary system of government
has been widely adopted by other nations.
• The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-
century England, transforming its society into
the world's first industrialised nation.England's
Royal Society laid the foundations of modern
experimental science.
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