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SHAKESPEARE
THE RENAISSANCE-THE BACKGROUND
1558-1625
: age of Shakespeare / golden age
INDIVIDUALISM
: God like a human, new science, new discoveries, flowering of outstanding cultural works
THE IDEAL
: imitation of an ideal model, which seem to garant perfection and happines
THE RENAISSANCE WORLD
monarchies = concentration of power
NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM
: explorations and colonisations
MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM
human body = universe
Men were at the centre of the World
the universe is made of things in harmony, the human in the centre helps to keep a balance inside and outside the universe
LOVE AND DEATH
TRAGEDY: Aristotle, 'pity and horror', political and religious reasons, no intro
CLASSICAL STRUCTURE: 5 structures (intro, development, crisis, decline, final), tragic hero/heroine (privileged, high moral, accept consequences, happy condition)
THEMES of elizabethan drama: basic dualism (order/disorcer), political messages, drama
personal disorder = trought madness social disorder = assasination
SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA: differences of the world of appearence and of the real world, different types of love, the king has a semi-divine responsability, conflicts between good and evil, heroes and heroines full of life, madness as a screen to defend oneself, words used to persuade and change the course of events
contrast of scenes, battles, boys as girls, disguise, original language, music, imagery
Who wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets? there are a lot of hypotheses, but it seems to be existed a playwrighter called William Shakspeare
THE SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYHOUSE
There were open-air playhouses of cyrcular or polygonal shapes with a yard in the centre
The fourth side was rthe apron-stage/stage for wealthy people, the audience sorrounded the stage, at the back there was the inner stage used for certain scenes, behind it, the tiring house where actors could get changed, above it there was the upper stage, it was a balcony and at the top sat the musicians
