Shakspeare's Julius Caesar (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Shakspere's Life And Works. Contemporary History And LiteraTure (ENGLISH AND FOREIGN). (564. April 26. Baptised at Stratford-on- Avon. 1582. November 28. Bond given for mar riage with Aune Hathaway. 1583. Daughter (Susanna) boru. 1585. Twins (Hamnet and Judith) born. 1592. By the middle of this year, a recog nised playwright in London. 1593. Venus and Adonis published. 1594. By this year, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company. Lucrece published. 1552. Spenser born. 1553. Hooker and Lyly born. Edward VI died; Mary succeeded. 1551. Sidney born. 1558. Peele born ? Mary died; Elizabeth succeeded. 1559. Chapman born ? 1560. Greene born. 1561. Bacon born. Gorboduc, the flrst English tragedy, acted. 1562. Lope de Vega born. 1563. Fox's Book of Martyrs. 1564. Marlowe born. Galileo born. Calvin died. 1566. Udall's Ralph Eoyster Doyster, the first English comedy, printed. 1567. Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. 1569. Mercator's first chart. 1570. Ascham's The Schoolmaster. Mid- dleton born. Dekker born ? 1572. Knox died. Camoens's Lusiads. 1573. Ben Jonson born. 1577. Holinshed's Chronicle. Drake be gan circumnavigation of the globe. 1578. Harvey born. 1579. Lyly's Euphues. North's transla tion of Plutarch. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. Fletcher born. 1580. Montaigne's Essays, i and ii. Ca- moens died. Lyly's Euphues and his England. 1581. Heywood born ? Tasso's Gerusa- lemme Liberata. 1584. Massinger born. William the Silent assassinated. Pecle's Arraignment of Paris. 1586. Beaumont and Ford born. Greene's Orlando Furioso acted, Sidney killed. 1587. Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded. Marlowe's Dr. Faustus acted ? 1588. Th...