Major Authors of Elizabethan Period

Major Authors of Elizabethan Period

1. William Shakespeare

Birth: 26 April 1564 AD. Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Death: 23 April 1616 AD Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Important Information

# Shakespearean play consists five acts.

# The greatest English Dramatist.

# Famous for objective presentation of his deep knowledge about human psychology.

# He is called “The bard of Avon.”

# He wrote 37 plays and drama and 154 Sonnets.

# Shakespearean Age is 1590 – 1616, in which he wrote his serious 12 plays.

Famous tragedies:

# Julius Caesar – Brutus ( Marcus Brutus ) is a famous character (protagonist) of Shakespeare in his Julius Caesar ( Tragedy )

# Romeo and Juliet

# Hamlet – Ophelia is an important Character . The view is expressed that "There is divinity that shapes our ends."

# Macbeth

# King Lear

# Othello

# Antony and Cleopatra

Famous Comedies

# The Tempest (William Shakespeare's first one)

# As you like it
# The Mid Summer Night’s Dream

# All’s well that Ends well

# The Comedy of Errors

# The Merchant of Venice

# The Taming of the Shrew

# Measure of Measure

# Love’s Labour’s Lost

# Antony and Cleopatra

# Twelfth night

# Winter’s Tale (Play)

# Titus Andronicus

# The Two Gentleman of Verona

# King John

# Much Ado About Nothing

# The Many Wins of Windsor

# Troilus and Cressida