THE RENAISSANCE SARA RICCIARDI

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The Elizabethan Age

par Ingrid Nichada Bekken Bekken

Humanities 101 Spring 16

par Kristina Young

CHIARA RAPONI INGLESE

par Chiara Raponi

Queen of Sheba

par Jennie Strutz

important innovation for the society

now it is very important the individual personality

attenta manca il soggetto

Renaissance actually means REBIRTH

in 1660 everything was restored and the atmosphere of the scene was better especially for the fact that even women were introduced in the theatre

after this period we have uncertaintly.The order of the universe is broken and consequently in the scene we have disillusionment and cynicisms

ELIZABETHAN TRAGEDIES ARE OFTEN POLITICAL MESSAGES FOR THE AUDIENCE

in this time, the themes of the tragedies revolve around the basic dualism order/disorder

now, the english authors don't follow anymore the classic tradition because

they don't follow anymore the Aristotle's Poetics. They mix tragic and comic elements.

Seneca's features are : Revenge theme, bloody scenes, use of ghosts and division of the play into five acts

the most used model in the theatre is SENECA

the theatre takes inspiration from the medieval and classical genres

it takes from the medieval the moralities and the interludes

it takes from the classical the elegance because the authors follow the Greek and Latin culture

the tragic HERO is

a person from a privileged social position

a pesrson of high moral qualites

the hero accepts his inevitable consequences with courage

the tragedy follows a structure of five acts :

introduction

development

crisis

decline

final outcome with catastrophe

we don't have the narration, because we only have characters that speak and consequently we have the catharsis that is the purification from all the emotions

IS AN IMITATION OF A SERIOUS ACTION

TRAGEDY

features of the drama theatre : we have the masque that is a representation with the help of music, danse and song. Then we have the interlude that is a drammatic enternaiment

the important thing now is that this type of theatre is for EVERYONE

it was a theatre for the middle class

the classical theatre was a difficult theatre to understand

RENAISSANCE DRAMA

supernatural world with God

earthly world with the king

the world is ruled by a sense of order, everything is in HARMONY

MICROCOSM

Sottoargomento

MACROCOSM

this man is known for his book UTOPIA that talks about a perfect Island where happiness reigns

THOMAS MORE

one of the greatest humanists is

man is at the centre of everything

THE OTHER

OTHERNESS

NATURE AND SUPERNATURAL

UNIVERSE

POWER AND SOCIETY

1) Henry Tudor also called Henry VII. 2) Henry VIII : division of the Church of England from the Church of Rome 3) Elizabeth I

introduced by William Caxton

THE PRINTING PRESS

TUDOR DYNASTY

two important events that happend in this period and really changed it, are :

so now the human body is at the centre of the universe

we have the passage from the Roman Church to the Reformation of Luther and Calvin

the artists get inspiration from the classical style and from Greek and Latin culture

we have new methods of research and a new view of the universe

it is based on axiomatic truths.

INDIVIDUALISM

THE RENAISSANCE SARA RICCIARDI

ottimo lavoro. finita la parte sul teatro è pronto per esposizione

the most important thing of this time is the

this time is also called AGE OF SHAKESPEARE; it is the golden age of literature because it is a time of ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, PEACE AND STABILTY

we have changes in:

RELIGION

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

SCIENCE

PHILOSOPHY

it can be divided in three different periods

1485-1558 : the beginning of the Renaissance

1558-1603 : the flowering of the Renaissance also known as the ELIZABETHAN ERA

1603-1625 : the decline of the Renaissance also called JACOBEAN AGE