ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -But regarding the man himself, there is a gap in the timeline scholars have constructed – a seven-year period during which we know nothing at all about where he was and what he was doing, although there is much, unsupported, conjecture about it. Those years have been labeled ‘the lost years.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the birth of the twins, there are seven years of Shakespeare’s life where no records exist. Scholars call this period the “lost years, ” and there is wide speculation on what he was doing during this period.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Folio of Shakespeare, published in 1623, is an extraordinary book. About half of Shakespeare’s plays had never previously appeared in print, including As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Tempest, and many more. Without the First Folio, 18 plays might have been lost forever.

Detailed explanation-5: -He left behind little documentation-no letters, no handwritten manuscripts, few contemporary accounts, and only six signatures, all spelled differently. In the words of Charles Dickens: “The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery, and I tremble every day lest something should turn up.”