Julius Caesar • 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Julius Caesar • 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Julius Caesar • 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Daughter Susanna <strong>Shakespeare</strong> christened<br />
1585 Christening of son Hamnet and twin Judith<br />
1587 Mary Queen of Scots executed<br />
1588 Destruction of the Spanish Armada<br />
1592 <strong>Shakespeare</strong> listed with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men<br />
1593-4 Plague closes London playhouses for 20 months<br />
1595 Coat of arms granted to <strong>Shakespeare</strong>’s father, John<br />
1596 Death of son Hamnet, age 11<br />
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene<br />
1597 <strong>Shakespeare</strong>, one of London’s most successful playwrights,<br />
buys New Place, one of the grandest houses in Stratford-upon-Avon<br />
1599 Globe Theatre opens, as home to the Lord Chamberlain’s Men,<br />
with <strong>Shakespeare</strong> as part-owner<br />
1600<br />
1602 Oxford University’s Bodleian Library opens<br />
1603 Death of Queen Elizabeth, coronation of James I<br />
Lord Chamberlain’s Men become the King’s Men upon endorsement of James I<br />
1603-11 Plague closes London playhouses for at least 68 months (nearly 6 years)<br />
1605 Cervantes’ Don Quixote Part 1 published<br />
1607 Marriage of Susanna <strong>Shakespeare</strong> to Dr. John Hall<br />
Founding of Jamestown, Virginia, first English settlement on<br />
American mainland<br />
1608 A true relation of such Occurances and Accidents of Note as hath passed<br />
in Virginia by John Smith<br />
Galileo constructs astronomical telescope<br />
1609 Blackfriars Theatre, London’s first commercial indoor theater,<br />
becomes winter home of the King’s Men<br />
1611 “King James Version” of the Bible published<br />
1613 Globe Theatre destroyed by fire<br />
1614 Globe Theatre rebuilt<br />
1615 Galileo faces the Inquisition for the first time<br />
1616 Judith <strong>Shakespeare</strong> marries Thomas Quinney<br />
Death of William <strong>Shakespeare</strong>, age 52<br />
1618 Copernican system condemned by Roman Catholic Church<br />
1619 First African slaves arrive in Virginia<br />
1623 The First Folio, the first compiled text of <strong>Shakespeare</strong>’s complete works published<br />
1625<br />
1625 James I dies, succeeded by Charles I<br />
1633 Galileo recants before the Inquisition<br />
1636 Harvard College founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts<br />
1642 Civil War in England begins<br />
1642 Puritans close theaters throughout England until following the Restoration<br />
of the Monarchy, 18 years later, with Charles II<br />
1649 Charles I beheaded<br />
1649 Commonwealth declared<br />
TIMELINE<br />
ca. 1596-1600<br />
comedies<br />
The Merchant of Venice<br />
Much Ado About Nothing<br />
The Merry Wives of Windsor<br />
As You Like It<br />
Twelfth Night<br />
histories<br />
Richard II<br />
1,2 Henry IV<br />
Henry V<br />
tragedies<br />
✪ <strong>Julius</strong> <strong>Caesar</strong><br />
ca. 1601-1609<br />
comedies<br />
Troilus and Cressida<br />
All’s Well That Ends Well<br />
tragedies<br />
Hamlet<br />
Othello<br />
King Lear<br />
Macbeth<br />
Antony and Cleopatra<br />
Timon of Athens<br />
Coriolanus<br />
Measure for Measure<br />
ca. 1609-1613<br />
romances<br />
Pericles<br />
Cymbeline<br />
The Winter’s Tale<br />
The Tempest<br />
The Two Noble Kinsmen<br />
histories<br />
Henry VIII<br />
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