Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- The Life of Shakespeare
- The Theatres and Companies
- Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
- Shakespeare the Poet
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan English
- Shakespeare and Music
- The National Background
- The Social Background
- Shakespeare's Sources
- Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time
- Shakespeare's Text
- Shakespearian Criticism
- Shakespearian Scholarship
- Shakespeare in the Theatre from the Restoration to the Present Time
- Reading List
- Appendices
- I Comparative Table of the Age and Dramatic Activity of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- II A Chronological Table (Plays, Books, and National Events)
- III A Note on Prices in Shakespeare's Time
- Index
- Plate section
II - A Chronological Table (Plays, Books, and National Events)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- The Life of Shakespeare
- The Theatres and Companies
- Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
- Shakespeare the Poet
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan English
- Shakespeare and Music
- The National Background
- The Social Background
- Shakespeare's Sources
- Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time
- Shakespeare's Text
- Shakespearian Criticism
- Shakespearian Scholarship
- Shakespeare in the Theatre from the Restoration to the Present Time
- Reading List
- Appendices
- I Comparative Table of the Age and Dramatic Activity of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- II A Chronological Table (Plays, Books, and National Events)
- III A Note on Prices in Shakespeare's Time
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The following chronological table covering Shakespeare's working years shows (a) some important national and theatrical events; (b) the date of publication of some important books; (c) approximate date of the first production of the most important plays during Shakespeare's career; (d) the dates of their first publication. The evidence for (c) and (d) will be found principally in Sir E. K. Chambers's Elizabethan Stage and William Shakespeare: a study of facts and problems. It is seldom possible to date the first appearance of a play exactly: before 1595 and after 1605 the margin of error may be as much as five years. Nor is there general agreement on the dates of Shakespeare's earliest and latest plays: some scholars would date the first as early as 1587. Plays which may be dated with some precision are marked.
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- Companion to Shakespeare Studies , pp. 371 - 381Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1934