Shakespeare\'s four greatest Tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606.
In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain\'s Men.
A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain\'s Men (later under James I, called the King\'s Men).
By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright.
Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585.
She was born on May 26, 1583.
In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna.
William probably went to the King\'s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education.
He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community.
The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) About the Author: William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23.
This authoritative edition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare\'s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.
No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization.
In these four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is central to tragedy and crucial to any human community--the problem of violence and revenge--on an unprecedented scale.
Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world\'s great writers invariably inspires.
Shakespeare\'s four greatest Tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606
