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    1. Shakespeare's plays
    2. Plays: 1588-1595
    3. Plays: 1592-1598
    4. Plays: 1588-1595
    5. Plays: 1602-1610
    6. Plays: 1609-1615
    7. BCE [BC] to CE [AD] 500
    8. Years 500-1000
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    11. Years 1500-1555
    12. Years 1556-1558
    13. Years 1559-1562
    14. Years 1563-1565
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    16. Years 1569-1571
    17. Years 1572-1574
    18. Years 1575-1577
    19. Years 1578-1581
    20. Years 1582-1585
    21. Years 1586-1587
    22. Years 1588-1590
    23. Years 1591-1592
    24. Years 1593-1594
    25. Years 1595-1596
    26. Years 1597-1598
    27. Years 1599-1601
    28. Years 1602-1603
    29. Years 1604-1606
    30. Years 1607-1608
    31. Years 1609-1611
    32. Years 1612-1613
    33. Years 1614-1615
    34. Years 1616-1619
    35. Years 1620-1623

Years 1612-1613

Shakespeare's life contemporary events
1612
Feb. 3. Gilbert Shakespeare is buried at Stratford.
May 11--Shakespeare is a witness in a suit between Belott and Mountjoy. His place of residence is given as Stratford.
Nov. 1--The King's Men perform The Tempest at Court.
Nov. 5--The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Court.
The fifth quarto of Richard III is published. 		Two Unitarians are burned for heresy, the last executions in England for purely religious beliefs.
The trial and execution of the Lancashire Witches.
Fulke Greville's Life of Sidney is published.
John Webster's The White Devil is published.
Tobacco is planted in Virginia.
Frederick V, elector palatine and future king of Bohemia, arrives in England on Oct. 16 to marry Elizabeth, daughter of James I.
Henry, Prince of Wales, dies; Charles becomes heir to James I.
Samuel Butler is born.
Sir John Harington dies.
1613
Jan. 28. John Combe, a Stratford neighbour, bequeathes Shakespeare £5.
Feb. 14. Richard Shakespeare is buried.
Mar. 10--Shakespeare buys the Blackfriars Gate-house in London.
Mar. 31--Shakespeare and Richard Burbage each receive 44 shillings for an impresa* for the Earl of Rutland's shield.
May 20. The King's Men are paid for performances of six of Shakespeare's plays* during the marriage festivities of Frederick V and princess Elizabeth.
July 15. Susanna Hall sues John Lane for defamation of her character. 		Webster'sThe Duchess of Malfi is first performed.
Francis Bacon is appointed Attorney-General.
The Globe theatre burns down during a performance of Henry VIII.
Champlain explores part of the Ottawa River.
Galileo writes a treatise supporting the Copernican system.
Richard Crashaw is born.
Thomas Bodley dies.

Footnotes

  1. An impresea. . .

    . . . is an emblem, accompanied by a motto. In Pericles, the knights competing in the lists each have a sheild with its impresea (2.2).

  2. Plays for a wedding

    Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Othello, and Julius Ceasar.

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