the order of the univere is broken and this idea is reflected in a degeneration of the precedent themes
political messages;showing that the breach of ORDER leads to CHAOS and to the need to restore this order
HARMONY ia restored
of tragedie revolve around ORDER and DISORDER
social disorder: ASSASSINATION
personal disorder: MADNESS
the English autors move away from the classic traditions
do not follow the three unities
mix tragic and comin elements
Structure
five acts divided into a numbers of scenes developing with
catastrophe or death of hero
features
previous happy condition makes his fall and final suffering all the greater
accepts the consequences with courage
high moral qualities
person from privileged social position
decline
crisis
development
introduction
as to achieve
CATHARSIS: purification from emotions
it mixes: popular intertainment and refined culture
Interlude : dramatic intertainment used to relieve tension
Masque : refined entertainment
humankind turns back to reality
struggle to imitate the ideal models
Ideal
there are two parts
Individualism:
humankind's position in the universe changes
Humankind
BALANCE
element in the chain who keep
the first living in HARMONY with the Macrocosm
Microcosm and Macrocosm
dream
sorrow : banished
happiness:reigns
radical change
LEONARDO DA VINCI
1603-1625:Jacobean age
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1485-1558 :The beginning of the Reinassance.
1588-1603: the flowrishing of the Reinassance
1603-1625: the decline of the Reinassance
1558-1603:Elisabethan era
1485-1558:tudor Dinasty
the Reinassance in England
pronto per esposizione orale
Jacobean Tragedies
comedies in prose
become very popular under the influence of the French playwright
women on stage
with Monarchy theatres are opened
appreciate:Refiniment/Frivolous subjects
new audience
the Puritan rule theatres are closed
considered sources of vice
Elizabethan tragedies have a number of codified features
conventional costumes/acting/structure/places
Elizabethan features
follows the Seneca's model
five acts
use of ghosts
bloody scenes
revenge theme
Tragedy
imitation of a serious action
with people acting directly
without narration
Drama
take inspiration to :
medieval genres
classic models
Themes
Thomas More
English humanist
Utopia
Rebirth from dark age
England lived a period of political stability, economical prosperity, geographical and technical discoveries.
Printing press : William Caxton
Colombus and Cabral: discovered Americas
philosophy
science
arts
religion
Religion: passage from Roman Church,followed by the Reformation
art: artists get inspiration to the Classic style
science: new discoveries;shift from system the Ptolemaic to the Heliocentric view
philosophy: deduction and anxiomatics truths
MAN AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD
man changed his ideas about the world
otherness
natural and the supernatural
man
power and society
universe
the other
