FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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very little is known / ‘The Silent Years’
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very much is known / ‘The Golden Years’
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very much is known / ‘The Best Years’
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very little is known / ‘The Lost Years’
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Detailed explanation-1: -’The Lost Years’ refers to the period of Shakespeare’s life between the baptism of his twins, Hamnet and Judith in 1585 and his apparent arrival on the London theatre scene in 1592.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1585 until 1592, very little is known about Shakespeare. These are generally referred to as ‘The Lost Years’. But by 1592 we know that he was in London where he was singled out by a rival dramatist, Robert Greene in his bitter deathbed pamphlet, A Groats-worth of Witte.
Detailed explanation-3: -The seven years after the birth of Judith and Hamnet are called Shakespeare’s “lost years, ” because information about him is incomplete and contradictory. However, we know that Shakespeare travelled to London in his late twenties, around 1588, to begin pursuing a career as an actor and playwright.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men.
Detailed explanation-5: -By 1592, aged 28, Shakespeare was in London and already established as both an actor and a dramatist. He is first mentioned as a man of the theatre by the poet and dramatist Robert Greene, in Greenes, Groats-Worth of Witte published that year.