cultural and artistic movement in england 16 th century through early 17 th century associated with...
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• Cultural and artistic movement in England
• 16th century through early 17th century
• Associated with European Renaissance
• Believed to have begun in Italy
English RenaissanceEnglish Renaissance
English RenaissanceEnglish Renaissance
• Often called “Age of Shakespeare” or “Elizabethan Era”
English RenaissanceEnglish Renaissance
• Important playwrights:– William Shakespeare
– Ben Jonson
– Christopher Marlowe
English RenaissanceEnglish Renaissance
• Important poets of the period:– Edmund Spenser
– John Milton
Important philosophers:– Sir Francis Bacon
– Sir Thomas More
• Period in England associated with rule of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
• Relatively peaceful time
Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era
Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era
• Considered Golden Age of English history
Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era
• Height of fashion in England
• Influenced by French and Spanish styles
Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era
• Annual festivities broke up daily life
• People looked forward to celebrations
• Many still celebrated today
Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era
• Other celebrations include:
– Valentine’s Day
– April Fool’s Day
– Christmas Season (13 days celebrated from Christmas Eve through Epiphany Eve)
• Bubonic and pneumonic plagues caused 14th century “Black Death”
• Spread through Europe, Middle East and Asia
• Recurred every generation for centuries
The PlagueThe Plague
The PlagueThe Plague
• Occurred again in England during 1592-1593
• Caused all theaters in London to close
• Shakespeare wrote long, narrative poems
• Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon
• Actual date of birth uncertain
Shakespeare BiographyShakespeare Biography
BiographyBiography
• Father was John Shakespeare
BiographyBiography
• At 18: married Anne Hathaway
• At 19: had daughter
• 1585: had twins
BiographyBiography
• Believed to have left for London 1585-1586
• 1594: became member of Lord Chamberlain’s Men
• Troupe became King’s Men in 1603
BiographyBiography
• Wrote and performed in plays
• Most widely-read playwright
• Also wrote poetry
• Shakespeare wrote or collaborated on 39 plays
• Plays divided into three categories– Comedies
– Tragedies
– Histories
Shakespeare’s PlaysShakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare’s PlaysShakespeare’s Plays
• His plays remain popular today
• Have been made into films and other plays
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The ComediesThe Comedies
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Winter’s Tale
• Characteristics of the
comedies include:– False/mistaken identities
– Toils of love and marriage
– Good versus Evil
• Songs written for comedies
• Only text exists
The Comedies: Themes
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Coriolanus
• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Macbeth
The TragediesThe Tragedies
The TragediesThe Tragedies
• Most popular tragedies:– Hamlet
– Julius Caesar
– Macbeth
– Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedies: ThemesThe Tragedies: Themes
• All Shakespearean tragedies: protagonist falls from grace and dies
• Tragic hero, tragic flaw
• An unhappy ending
• King John
• Richard II
• Henry IV, Part I
• Henry IV, Part 2
• Henry V
The HistoriesThe Histories
• Wrote two narrative poems during plague years
• Dedicated to Earl of Southampton
Shakespeare’s PoetryShakespeare’s Poetry
PoetryPoetry
• Other narrative poems: The Phoenix and the Turtle and A Lover’s Complaint
• Sonnets are most well-known
• Form is fourteen lines of iambic pentameter
PoetryPoetry
• Published 154 sonnets
• First 17 thought written to young man
• Advises young man to marry, have a child
PoetryPoetry
• Sonnets 18-126 written to young man
• Celebrate speaker’s love for young man
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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shall I compare Shall I compare
PoetryPoetry
• Sonnets 127-154 present the Dark Lady
• Woman presented as treacherous
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Khadija Omar
Hnan Ahmad