Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Background Activities

Topics for talks (about 5 minutes - somewhere between 240 and 360 seconds of free speech, ideally based on a single sheet of notes of postcard size)

Red intitials mean that the topic has been allocated to a member of your class!

You may deliver your talk well before the DEADLINE on Monday, 7th Jan. 2019.

Sonnet CK	Shakespeare Authorship Question JS	1588 and the Spanish Armada CR
Petrarch NH	Edward de Vere and the Oxfordian Theory of Shakespeare Authorship	Philip Henslowe / Forms of entertainment beside the theatre LP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-baiting
Elizabeth I SB	William Shakespeare's Religion NF	The Burbage Family JWa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burbage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burbage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Burbage
James I PG	Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel (and Shakespeare's Death Mask)	Bedlam Hospital MA
Ben Jonson ME	Theatres in London (in the days of William Shakespeare - with the exception of the "Globe Theatre") https://www.playshakespeare.com/study/elizabethan-theatres FW	Portraits of Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe KN	The Globe Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe AS	The Art of Printing JD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton
Thomas Kyd EW	A General Survey of Shakespeare's Plays MO	Aspects of the Death Penalty in the Elizabethan Age TK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_burning
Theatre Companies (in the days of William Shakespeare) PW	Edmund Campion DP	The Gunpowder Plot DH

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