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| Introduction | |
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| Chart of Lands and Peoples Referenced in Shakespeare's Writing | |
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| Shakespeare's Life Shakespeare's Ancestry | |
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| John and Mary Shakespeare | |
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| Decline of Family Fortunes | |
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| Stratford-Upon-Avon | |
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| Shakespeare's Education | |
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| Literary Influences | |
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| Early Dramatic Influences | |
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| Marriage and Children | |
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| Retirement and Death | |
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| Legends | |
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| Shakespeare's Plays and Poems | |
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| Potential Chronology for the Works | |
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| The Narrative Poems | |
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| Sonnets | |
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| Comedies and Romances | |
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| The History Plays | |
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| Late Romances | |
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| The Tragedies | |
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| Performance and Criticism | |
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| Anti-Stratfordian Theories | |
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| Shakespeare and the Bible | |
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| Shakespeare's Contemporaries | |
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| Shakespeare's Critics | |
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| Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton | |
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| The University Wits vs | |
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| The Grammarians | |
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| Shakespeare's Theaters | |
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| Acting Troupes | |
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| Sources for Shakespeare's Writing | |
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| Characters and Themes | |
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| Critical Approaches | |
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| Elizabeth's England | |
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| The Tudor Dynasty | |
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| Queen Elizabeth I | |
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| Elizabeth's Government | |
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| Elizabethan Economy | |
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| James Stuart I of England | |
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| Documents: The First Parliament, January 23-May 8, 1559, (Excerpt) | |
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| The Oath of a Privy Councillor | |
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| An Act for the Relief of the Poor, (Excerpt) | |
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| The Act of Uniformity, (Excerpt) | |
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| Shakespeare's Society | |
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| Ancient History of England | |
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| Games and Sports | |
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| Holidays | |
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| Music | |
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| Folk Sayings and Proverbs | |
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| Shakespeare's English | |
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| Printers | |
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| Playhouses | |
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| London in the 16th Century | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Death and Burial | |
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| Ghosts and Witchcraft | |
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| Military Service | |
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| Punishments | |
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| Religion | |
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| Tudor Reform | |
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| Versions of the Bible | |
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| Catholicism and the Anglican Church | |
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| Elizabeth's Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity | |
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| Puritans | |
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| The Reformation | |
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| European Protestantism | |
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| The Counter Reformation | |
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| Other Faiths | |
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| Documents: Convocation of 1563: Puritan Demands | |
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| Dedication of the King James Bible to the King | |
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| Institutes of the Christian Religion, (Excerpt) John Calvin | |
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| From Loyola's March 26, 1553 Letter to Portugal (Excerpt) | |
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| The Elizabethan Social Order | |
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| Farmlands | |
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| Households | |
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| Social Ranks | |
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| Titles and Ranks | |
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| Women | |
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| Marriage and Family | |
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| Minorities | |
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| The European Effect | |
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| Map | |
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| Austria | |
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| Hungary | |
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| Italy | |
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| Southern Europe | |
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| Spain | |
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| Portugal | |
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| France | |
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| Germany and Central Europe | |
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| The Netherlands | |
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| Scotland | |
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| Ireland | |
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| Poland | |
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| Denmark | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Map | |
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| The Great Chain of Being | |
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| Humanism | |
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| The European Renaissance | |
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| Music | |
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| Politics | |
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| Literature | |
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| Art | |
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| Science | |
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| Alternative Lifestyles | |
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| Noble Women | |
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| Eastern Empires | |
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| Map | |
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| Russia | |
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| Africa | |
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| Arabia | |
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| Persia | |
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| Palestine | |
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| The Ottoman Empire | |
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| Australia | |
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| China and Cathay | |
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| Japan | |
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| East Asia | |
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| India | |
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| Documents: First Charter to the East India Company, December 31, 1600, (Excerpt) | |
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| Western Worlds | |
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| Map | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Mexico and South America | |
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| English Colonies | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| New World Writing | |
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| Documents: Charter to the Virginian Colonies, April 10, 1606, (Excerpt) | |
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| Discourse of Western Planting | |
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| Richard Hakluyt | |
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| The General Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), (Excerpt) | |
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