Sackville and Norton, Gorboduc (first English tragedy, 1561) Montaigne, Essays (1580) Marlowe, Dr. Faustus(1588) Sidney, Arcadia (1590) Richard III (c. 1591—92); Richard II (c. 1595) (pub. 1597) Venus and Adonis (1593) Shakespeare writes 154 sonnets (1593—99) Sidney,An Apology for Poetry(1595) Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595—96; pub. 1599) Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595—96); Merchant of Venice (c. 1596—97)(pub. 1600) Henry V (c. 1599; pub. 1623) Hamlet (c. 1600—01; pub. 1604) Donne,Songs and Sonnets (1601) Othello (c. 1604; pub. 1622) Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I (1605) King Lear (c. 1605—06; pub. 1608) Jonson, Volpone (1606) Macbeth (c. 1606; pub. 1623) Kepler, On the Motion of Mars (1609) Sonnets (pub. 1609) King James Bible (1611) Tempest (1611; pub. 1623) Webster, Duchess of Malfi (1613) | 1555 1620 | Elizabeth I reigns in England (1558—1603) Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon (Apr. 23, 1564) Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway (Nov. 1582); begins theater work in London (c. 1587?) Defeat of Spanish Armada by England (1588) First print reference to Shakespeare’s success as playwright ("upstart crow") (1592) Shakespeare shareholder in Lord Chamberlain’s (after 1603, King’s) men (1594—c.1611) Shakespeare’s name appears for first time on title page of his plays (1597) Globe Theatre built in London (1599) Shakespeare’s father dies (1601) Bodleian Library, Oxford University, opens (1602)
James I succeeds Elizabeth (1603) Galileo constructs astronomical telescope (1608) Shakespeare’s mother dies (1609) Shakespeare retires to Stratford (c. 1611—13) Shakespeare dies (Apr. 23); Cervantes dies (1616) |
