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Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and the Elizabethan Era

Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and the Elizabethan Era. 1485-1625. Mystery plays were enactments of Christian stories They spanned from the Garden of Eden to the death of Christ Medieval guilds performed these plays and used a wagon as a stage.

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Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and the Elizabethan Era

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  1. Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and the Elizabethan Era 1485-1625

  2. Mystery plays were enactments of Christian stories • They spanned from the Garden of Eden to the death of Christ • Medieval guilds performed these plays and used a wagon as a stage

  3. Another medieval drama was the morality play • Morality plays used an allegory and taught a lesson

  4. Sir Thomas Moore was strongly influenced by humanism • Humanism took a renewed interest in Greek and Latin authors • Renaissance dramatists looked to these models to write their own dramas

  5. Actors had bad reputations • Actors were lumped together with thieves, vagabonds, and murders • Boys played female parts • Actors tried to gain sponsorship of noblemen • Shakespeare’s company called itself the Lord Chamberlain’s Men • The Lord Chamberlain’s Men built the Globe on the Thames River

  6. In his play Henry V Shakespeare calls his theater the Wooden O

  7. Some characteristics of Shakespeare’s performances were: • Performed in the middle of the afternoon • No special lighting • Theatrical devices, such as trapdoors • Columns might be richly decorated • Words had to do most of the work

  8. Groundlings stood around the stage for the price of a penny

  9. Shakespeare wrote plays about: • Drama about English history • Comedies that explore love, imagination and transformation • Tragedies that depict downfall of men and women in high places • Romances that deal with the subject of reconciliation

  10. Shakespeare’s rival was Christopher Marlowe • Marlowe was suspicioned to be the real writer of Shakespeare’s works • Shakespeare died of a fever after drunkenness on his birthday

  11. Tudor dynasty • Henry VII defeated Henry VI to end the War of the Roses • Henry VIII 1509-1547 had 6 wives and started the Church of England • Mary, known as Bloody Mary • Elizabeth, known as The Virgin Queen

  12. Stuart Kings • James I was the first to rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland • Was known for commissioning the translation of the bible

  13. Renaissance means “new birth” • England changed in the following ways: • Expansion of knowledge • American discovery • Intense political struggle • Religious controversy

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