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Title: The Renaissance Drama


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The Renaissance Drama
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What information have you to know about
Renaissance drama?
  • When it flourished
  • Its themes
  • Its language
  • The companies of actors
  • The playhouse
  • The playwrights
  • William Shakespeare

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  • 1534
  • Henry VIIIs schism
  • from
  • the Roman church
  • The end of Medieval
  • religious drama
  • 1558 - 1642
  • Elizabeth I ascended the throne
  • Drama reflects the
    humanistic spirit of the new age

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  • Renaissance drama deals with
  • Human nature
  • Mans life
  • The mans destiny on earth
  • The mans position in the universe
  • English history to express the pride of the
    nation.

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  • The common language
  • expresses
  • Strong emotions
  • Disruptive passions
  • Joyful

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  • The main characteristics of actors
  • They belong to all the social classes
  • They travelled
  • They were servants of a Lord
  • They called their companies with the Lords name
  • There were no women
  • Young boys played womens roles.

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  • Before Elizabethan throne
  • Playhouse

Movable platforms Town square
  • The Elizabethan playhouse
  • Circular or polygonal in shape
  • The stage consisted of a rectangular place
  • Around the theatre there were three tiers of
    galleries
  • There werent used painted scenary.

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  • The first group of playwright
  • the University Wits

Lyly Marlowe
Endymion, Midas
Tamburlaine, Edward II, Doctor Faustus, The Jew
of Malta
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  • Identikit
  • Name William
  • Surname Shakespeare
  • Birthday 1564
  • Death 1616
  • Profession playwright and actor
  • Company The Kings men
  • Tragedies Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello
  • Comedies The Comedy of Errors, Midsummer
  • Night s Dream, The Twelfth Night
  • The Roman plays Julius Caesar, Antony and
    Cleoplatra, Coriolanus
  • Romances Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, The
    Tempest

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