Shakespeare's Hamlet and Other Works

Shakespeare's Hamlet: preceded by an earlier Hamlet play, lost and author is unknown

Style/Genre: must have a single plot

Three unities: time, place, and style or genre

Time: Must take place in one day

Troupe supported by James 1: 'King's Men'

Two forms of evidence according to the chapter that provides proof that Shakespeare was the writer of his works:

1. He made puns involving his wife Anne Hathaway within his works
2. Edward de Vere died in 1604 and Shakespeare's plays were written after he didn't live to see events that were written about, i.e. Tempest inspired by a shipwreck in Bermuda, Macbeth influenced by the Gunpowder plot

Two plays of Shakespeare written during the reign of King James: Othello, Macbeth

Two theories Shakespeare wasn't the writer of his works:

• Baonian-Delia Bacon: Francis Bacon was the real author
• 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere-SP lacked the worldliness to publish his own plays; Edward was more equipped in experience, status, and education to write such plays

What are the fairies supposed to do to Falstaff in the forest: To burn him, and if he does not burn then he is pure. They circle him and pinch him and singe him with the candles

What did the Third Folio contain that the First Folio did not: Pericles- 6 non-Shakespeare plays

What eventually happened to New Place: Reverend Francis Gastrell was scared of the noise of passersby, he tore it down. Shakespeare is Bacon

What evidence proves that Shakespeare was celebrated and famous during the times indicated in the chapter: By 1598 his name began to appear on the title pages of the quarto editions of his plays

What examples are provided to describe how playwrights borrowed from other sources while writing their works: Playwrights' plots in the Elizabethan era were common property

What plots did the wives decide to punish Falstaff with: To lead on Falstaff until he is ruined and humiliated

Who compiled the First Folio: Edward Blount and the father and son team of William and Isaac Jaggard (1680s)

Who does Slender end up with: Slender arrives upset; in the confusion, he eloped with a young boy in Anne's outfit