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    The Renaissance: English Humanists Such As Sir Thomas More and Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    The Renaissance period in England lasted from 1500-1660 and was divided into four subsets: the Elizabethan Age, Jacobean Age, Caroline Age, and Commonwealth Period. During this time, English literature flourished with the works of William Shakespeare, who wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets across various genres including comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. His plays were performed in both private and public theaters that emerged in London during the Elizabethan era, when Shakespeare established himself as one of the preeminent playwrights of the English Renaissance.

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    The Renaissance period in England lasted from 1500-1660 and was divided into four subsets: the Elizabethan Age, Jacobean Age, Caroline Age, and Commonwealth Period. During this time, English literature flourished with the works of William Shakespeare, who wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets across various genres including comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. His plays were performed in both private and public theaters that emerged in London during the Elizabethan era, when Shakespeare established himself as one of the preeminent playwrights of the English Renaissance.

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    The Renaissance period in England lasted from 1500-1660 and was divided into four subsets: the Elizabethan Age, Jacobean Age, Caroline Age, and Commonwealth Period. During this time, English literature flourished with the works of William Shakespeare, who wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets across various genres including comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. His plays were performed in both private and public theaters that emerged in London during the Elizabethan era, when Shakespeare established himself as one of the preeminent playwrights of the English Renaissance.

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    The Renaissance (1500-1660)

     began with English humanists such as Sir Thomas More and Sir Thomas Wyatt
     consists of 4 subsets: The Elizabethan Age, The Jacobean Age, The Caroline Age and The
    Commonwealth Period
     It began with the raise of the House of Tudor in 1485
     The Elizabethan Age –  coincides with the reign of Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603)
    o major styles: lyric poetry, prose, drama
     The Jacobean Age - coincides with the reign of James I (1603 – 1625)
    o literature became sophisticated, somber and conscious of social abuse and
    rivalry
    o produced rich prose and drama s well as the King James traslation of the Bible
     The Caroline Age
    o coincides with the reign of Charles I (1625 - 1649)
    o writers wrote with refinement and elegance
    o this era produced a circle of poets as teh „Cavalier Poets“ and the dramatists
    were the last to write in the Elizabethan tradition
     The Commonwealth Period
    o includes the lit. produced during the time of Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell
    o produced political writings, political treatise, and prose
    o later Puritans closed theatres on moral and religious grounds (for the 18 years
    they remained closed, accounting for the lack of drama)

    Elizabethan Drama and Theatre (1558 – 1603)


    - the theatres of Elizabethan age using small number of props could be a small set of pieces
    - costumes were very important - they were usually contemporary except for supernatural characters and
    there were conventional costumes – for Spaniards or animals.
    - Shakespeare’s plays seemed to be accepted as the most dramatically effective. He attempted all popular
    forms and subjects
    - by the 1500 his plays were performed in two types of buildings: the private theatre, the public theatre
    - the private theatres were small, roofed buildings in which wealthy audience gathered to watch the
    plays.
    - Shakespeare wrote his plays for the public theatres
    - the first theatre in London was built in 1576 and at that time when Shakespeare wrote most of his plays
    there were more theatres in London than in other European cities
     William Shakespeare
    o born in Atratford-upon-Avon
    o poet, playwright, actor
    o married to Anne Hathaway, 3 children (son Hamlet died)
    o 39 plays, 154 sonnets – he wrote comedies, tragedies, sonnets, historical plays
    o in 1599 he became a shareholder at the Globe Theatre
    o Comedies - relations and love stories, family stories, kind humour, no satire, fun,
    kind-hearted irony, word-plays, mistaken identities, complicated plot, many
    characters
     As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
    o Tragedies - tragic hero and tragic easte, dichotomy - good vs evil, fate or
    fortune, supernatural elements
     Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra...
     Romeo and Juliet – Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party. But they come from families
    which hate each other. They are sure they will not be allowed to marry. Nevertheless, helped by Friar Laurence, they
    marry in secret instead. Unfortunately, before their wedding night Romeo kills Juliet's cousin in a duel, and in the
    morning he is forced to leave her. If he ever returns to the city, he will be put to death.

    Juliet's parents told her she must marry Paris. Her parents do not know she is already married. She refuses in the
    beginning, but later agrees because she plans to fake her death and escape to be with Romeo forever; again with the
    help of Friar Laurence.

    Frair Laurence designs the plan. He gives Juliet a sleeping potion. She appears to be dead and was put in a tomb.
    However, Romeo does not know about the plan, visits her grave, thinks she is dead, and kills himself. When Juliet
    finally wakes up, she discovers that Romeo is dead and then kills herself.
    o Historical plays - supporter of the Tudor dynasty, Yorkist = bad characters,
    Lancastrians = good characters, based very loosely on historical facts and data
     Richard III, Julius Ceasar, Julius and Cleopatra, Henry V...

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