ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -We don’t know exactly when Shakespeare started writing plays, but they were probably being performed in London by 1592, and he’s likely to have written his final plays just a couple of years before his death in 1616.

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: -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-4: -1596-1597. His son Hamnet dies. Shakespeare purchases New Place, a large house in Stratford. Writes: The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet.