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SHAKESPEAR, sonnets to express universal feeling. for example love: love…
SHAKESPEAR
life
he was born in stratford from a successful tradesman, until he met financial difficulties. he attended a locan grammar school and at the age of 18 he married anne hathaway.
he was caught in deer hunting, which was illegal, and due to this he was forced to leave stratford to go to london
he experienced the playhouse in minor roles, but he was noticed to be a great playwriter
theatres were shut down due to a plague. shakespear need to find support from a private: the earl of southampon. when theatres re-opened shakespear's company became one of the most famous: lord chamberlain
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operes
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scenes: gradual clarification of things left mysterious at the beginning. shakespear also leave lots of open questions, so that the viewer can continue to think about the answer
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dating of shakespearian plays: shakespear's plays can be approximately dated by using three methods.
elizabethan theatres
theatre was born in churches, as a way to entertain people during celebrations. it had so much success that it became indipendent and moved outside churches
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structure: circular or octagonal. the stage was divided in apron stage,projected into the yard where the play take place (witch a max of 12 actors); the inner stage, hidden by a curtain; the upper stage,used by musicians
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sonnets
the structure of sonnets was the petrarchan one: 2 quatrains and 2 triplets. but shakespear used a different structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet
came from italy by jacopo da lentini in the XIII century. in england it started has an imitation of the italian sonnets
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- sonnets to express universal feeling. for example love: love isn't necessarly connected to a woman, it could be a universal kind of love
- sonnets about a 'dark lady'. the idea of a dark lady is opposed to the 'fair youth'. a dark lady isn't an idealised woman, she's a real woman. she doesn't have to be pretty or to be better than nature to catch the eyes of the poet
- external: the most valuable method. consists in a clear mention or reference of a certain play.thanks to that we can give a date to the play
- stylistic: the most difficult method. consists in analyzing the style of a play, which changes are very noticeable. as a consequence the play can be placed in a precise period
- internal: when the plays contains a reference to a certain datable event