We all know him, we all love him. Right? ...and most of us have (had) to study at least one of his works in school.
And yet, it can be hard getting an overview of his life. Pages like this are fantastic in helping us to delve into William Shakespeare's world. However, they do have a lot of text and are time-consuming to read.
What would it be like to have a time line which, with just one glance, gives an overview of Shakespeare's life, with a separate column for literary events and another column for political and historical events - so you can look at Shakespeare's life and his world at the same time?
And what would it be like if one could click on any event on the time line and subsequently get a complete literary / historical / biographical overview of the 9 years surrounding it?
What I am about to say might not come as a complete surprise: The amazing comprehensive Shakespeare time line exists and can be found here!
Enjoy it and, as always, let me know if you have any thoughts / comments or know of other, high quality related web resources...
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I am studying the First World War and wondered if at all possible to have just the episodes in Shakespeare's plays that relate to war?
ReplyDeleteThank you
Janette
Hi Janette,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately we do not have an awful lot about war and Shakespeare, however there are some references at the start and the end of Hamlet about war in Norway: see, for instance, Synopsis of Act I, scene i: http://www.crossref-it.info/textguide/Hamlet/1/4
You could also try the search results on the site for Hamlet and war: http://crossref-it.info/search/?cx=013545115087300183688%3Aqwk7vun3r-w&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=hamlet+war&sa=Search#904