Shakespeare's Life (In Our Time)
1592 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg examines what we know about the life of William Shakespeare. Charles Dickens said of the deeply enigmatic Shakespeare, “It is a great comfort…that so little is known concerning the poet. The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something should turn up”. The mystery may have been a pleasure to Dickens but fo
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Around 1592
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)