Elizabethan Playwrights

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Elizabethan Playwrights

• Becca, Lauren O and Lauren W

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Elizabethan Playwrights

• Christopher Marlowe- tragedy
• Plays-
• Tamburlanie
• The Jew of Malta
• Edward the second
• The Massacre of Paris
• The tragical history of Doctor Faustus

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Elizabethan Playwrights

• Nicholas Udall- Comedy
• Ralph Roister Doister

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Elizabethan Playwrights

• Ben Jonson- comedy
• Plays-
• Sejanus
• Catiline
• The case is altered
• Eastward ho
• The devil is an ass
• Volpone

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Elizabethan Playwrights

• John Webster- tragedy
• Plays-
• The White Devil
• The duchess of Malfi
• The devils law case

From the Duchess of Malfi
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Elizabethan Education

• In the Elizabethan era the childhood for boys,
  from the age of five to seven, was spent by being
  sent for the most elementary level of education
  at what was called a Petty School
• These Petty schools were usually run, for a small
  fee, by a local, well educated housewife. At the
  ' Petty School ' or ' Dame School ' children's
  education would consist of being taught to read
  and write English, study religious dogma and
  learn lessons in behavior.
• Playwrights would more likely go to a Grammar
  school
• The Grammar School in Stratford was called King
  Edward IV Grammar School and William Shakespeare
  would have started attendance at the Elizabethan
  Grammar school at the age of seven
• The boys, including William Shakespeare,  first
  learnt Latin with the assistance of the Tudor
  text-book known as Lily's Latin Grammar
• The first year of Elizabethan education the
  curriculum would have consisted of learning parts
  of speech together with verbs and nouns. The
  second year of education the rules of
  construction and forming sentences and the third
  year of Elizabethan education would have
  concentrated on English-Latin and Latin-English
  translations.

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Patronage

• Patronage is the support, encouragement,
  privilege and often financial aid that an
  organization or individual bestows to another. In
  the history of art, arts patronage refers to the
  support that kings or popes have provided to
  musicians, painters, and sculptors.
• Rulers, and very wealthy used patronage of the
  arts to endorse their political ambitions, social
  positions, and prestige. The key element in this
  production was patronage. It was the money of
  patrons that allowed artists to live long enough
  and well enough to produce their wondrous
  achievements.

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