Shakespeare’s Work Essay Outline
Claire Yang, 9F
August 26, 2009
I. Introduction
Thesis: Shakespeare’s life affairs affected his works (plays)
II. Relationship between Shakespeare’s Life and his work during Pre-1594
A. Nameless times of Shakespeare’s Career
1. Shakespeare’s persistence
a. Need of love and loyalty of Shakespeare’s family
B. Shakespeare’s family
1. Shakespeare’s wife
2. Shakespeare’s children
C. Shakespeare’s life motifs/realization
1. Love
2. Persistence
D. Shakespeare’s noteworthy work and its themes reflecting his life during Pre-1594
1. Love’s Labour’s Lost
2. Two Gentlemen of Verona
3. Comedy of Errors
III. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
A. Shakespeare’s Sonnet
1. Venus and Adonis
2. Rape of Lucrece
B. Reasons for writing Sonnets
1. Money
2. Prosperity
IV. Relationship between Shakespeare’s love for his wife and his work
A. Shakespeare’s wife
1. Oldness & ugliness
B. Shakespeare’s work reflecting his feelings for his wife
1. Midsummer Night’s Dream
2. Twelfth Night
V. Relationship between Shakespeare’s work during 1594-1600 and his life
A. Shakespeare’s triumphs eclipses his tragic affairs
1. Relationship with his wife
2. Death of his son, Hamnet
B. Shakespeare’s work and its themes representing his life during 1594-1600
1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. As You Like It
3. Twelfth Night
4. Midsummer Night’s Dream
VI. Relationship between Shakespeare’s work during 1594-1600 and his life
A. Consequence of his earthly ambition and lust for power
1. Death of his parents
B. Works and its themes during 1600-1608 representing his sentiments and realization
1. Macbeth
2. King Lear
3. Hamlet
VII. Conclusion
A. Shakespeare’s plays represent Shakespeare’s life
B. Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespeare’s life is affected by each other
C. Shakespeare’s plays is his life.