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The Early Seventeenth Century
Overview
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Gender, Family, & HouseholdThe image of the husband beating his wife with a rod is from a French engraving by Abraham Bosse (ca. 1640).
The wife kneels before the husband as a penitent, and her children do also, as if begging mercy for her.
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Reign of James IFrom an early seventeenth-century collection of costumes at
the time of James I. Here, as the gentleman and the lady of the household play cards with their guests, a servingman
brings them dishes of food. The Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Early Seventeenth Century
After more than four decades on the throne, Elizabeth I died in 1603.
James VI of Scotland succeeded her, becoming James I and establishing the Stuart dynasty. • King’s theories: less “shared” government
& more authoritarian• “Divine right of kings”
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The Early Seventeenth Century
Political and religious tensions intensified under James’s son, Charles I, who succeeded to the throne in 1625. • Attempted to rule without Parliament• 1642 Civil War breaks out• Charles defeated and beheaded!
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The Early Seventeenth Century
As ideas changed, so did the conditions of their dissemination.
• Recall the Monarch = God paradigm• These structures begin to crumble in light of
scientific discoveries
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The Early Seventeenth Century
In the early seventeenth century, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and George Herbert led the shift towards “new” poetic genres.
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The Early Seventeenth Century
Many leading poets were staunch royalists, or Cavaliers, who suffered heavily in the war years. • Civil War disastrous for theater: closed
down playhouses in 1642 Yet two of the best writers of the
period, John Milton and Andrew Marvell, sided with the republic.
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The Early Seventeenth Century
The revolutionary era also gave new impetus to women’s writing on both sides of the political divide