After the Lord Chamberlain's Men were renamed the King's Men in 1603, they entered a special relationship with the new King James. Although the performance records are patchy, the King's Men performed seven of Shakespeare's plays at court between 1 November 1604 and 31 October 1605, including two performances of The Merchant of Venice.After 1608, they performed at the indoor Blackfriars Theatre during the winter and the Globe during the summer.The indoor setting, combined with the Jacobean fashion for lavishly staged masques, allowed Shakespeare to introduce more elaborate stage devices. In Cymbeline, for example, Jupiter descends "in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees.
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Sonnets:
Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare\'s non-dramatic works to be printed. Scholars are not certain when each of the 154 sonnets was composed, but evidence suggests that Shakespeare wrote sonnets throughout his career for a private readership.Even before the two unauthorised sonnets appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599, Francis Meres had referred in 1598 to Shakespeare\'s \"sugred Sonnets among his private friends\".Few analysts believe that the published collection follows Shakespeare\'s intended sequence.He seems to have planned two contrasting series: one about uncontrollable lust for a married woman of dark complexion (the \"dark lady\"), and one about conflicted love for a fair young man (the \"fair youth\"). It remains unclear if these figures represent real individuals, or if the authorial \"I\" who addresses them represents Shakespeare himself, though Wordsworth believed that with the sonnets \"Shakespeare unlocked his heart\".[126] The 1609 edition was dedicated to a \"Mr. W.H.\", credited as \"the only begetter\" of the poems. It is not known whether this was written by Shakespeare himself or by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, whose initials appear at the foot of the dedication page; nor is it known who Mr. W.H. was, despite numerous theories, or whether Shakespeare even authorised the publication.Critics praise the Sonnets as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreation, death, and time .
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Religion :
Some scholars claim that members of Shakespeare's family were Catholics, at a time when Catholic practice was against the law.Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street. The document is now lost, however, and scholars differ on its authenticity.In 1591, the authorities reported that John had missed church "for fear of process for debt", a common Catholic excuse.In 1606, William's daughter Susanna was listed among those who failed to attend Easter communion in Stratford.Scholars find evidence both for and against Shakespeare's Catholicism in his plays, but the truth may be impossible to prove either way
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