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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), In 1595 joined the Lord Chamberlain'…
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(1564-1616)
flexible dramatic forms
no respect of the 3 Aristotelian units
mixture of dramatic genres
meta-theatrical language
use of cross-dressing and disguise
sense of indefiniteness
theatre as mirror of the age
took his plots
from other authors (ancient and contemportary) and revitalised them with new meanings
Plutarch, Plautus, Chaucer, Lodge, Greene
1590-1600: Histories and Comedies
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Comedies
EARLY/EUPHUISTIC COMEDIES
The Comedy of Errors
The Taming of the Shrew
The two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
ROMANTIC COMEDIES
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like it
Twelfth Night
Dark Comedies / Problem Plays
Troilus and Clessida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Comedies open with social disruption, finally settled in a harmonious resolution through marriage; multiple and intertwined plots
(1600-1610) Tragedies and Romances
Revenge/Senecan tragedies
Titus Andronicus
Lyric/Romantic Tragedies
Romeo and Juliet
Historical Tragedies/Roman Plays
Julius Caesar
Coriolanus
Antony and Cleopatra
Great Modern Tragedies
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Romances
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
More intense degree of suffering
higher social class of the major characters
extended use of the blank verse
tragic heroes who choose their own behaviour, victims of unfair circumstances and resposible for their own misery.
S. tragedies are the mirror of the crisis of modenity (man's uncertainties in a changing world)
Plays written in collaboration with others
Timon of Athens
Henry VIII
The two Noble Kinsmen
In 1595 joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men
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