The title page of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623, with Martin Droeshout's engraved portrait
Title page of Shakespeare's First Folio, 1623
Marked Stratford-upon-Avon

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Shakespeare

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare wrote and acted for the London stage, with plays performed at the Globe and at court. His plays have been translated into more than a hundred languages.

Date
1564 to 1616IX · Oceans crossed
Place
Stratford-upon-Avon · The Globe, Southwark · The Rose · BlackfriarsEurope
Laid out as
A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet
Image
Martin Droeshout (engraving), Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA Stratford childhood
  2. IIThe lost years
  3. IIILondon’s playhouses
  4. IVThe Globe
  5. VThe King’s Men
  6. VIThe First Folio

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • William Shakespeare
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Richard Burbage
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Elizabeth I
  • James I

Objects

  • The First Folio
  • His will
  • Finds from the Rose and the Curtain

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1564 to 1616. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?