renaissance

Mer som dette

The teacher

Ved Alberto Gonzalez

Renaissance in England. -- Edoardo Conti.

Ved Edoardo Conti

Eras of Brit Lit

Ved Felix Bartolett

Schools of Thought

Ved Julian Blandi

RENAISSANCE

THEATRE

two different periods

Elizabethan times

there are some commons features like bloody scenes, long speeches and the revenge theme

Seneca is the most used model

the main theme is the dualism order-disorder

Jacobean era

the scene is dominated by

cruelty against all rule of classical decorum

cynism

disillusionement

tragedy

structure

final catastrophe of the hero

accepts the consequences of his actions and his final destination

High moral quality but commits a final mistake

person from a privileged social position

decline

crisis

developement

introduction

take inspiration by Aristotels poetic

achieve chatarsis

drama

masque

type of entertainment common at the Elizabethan court

interlude

interval between the acts of a tragedy

was inspired by medieval genres and classic models

two main events

the raise of Tudor Dynasty

in 1485 Henry Tudor defeated king Richard VI and was declared new king

he established the Tudor Dynasty that made England became a European political power and a centre of literacy culture

the printing press

introduced in England by William Caxton

England lives a "golden age" that led to a lot of discoveries

one of the most important was the copernican cosmology

under his influence there is a new vision of the world

the man is now at the centre of the world

HUMANISM

new spirit of adventure and new geographical discoveries

Thomas More (1480-1535)

wrote "Utopia" that means nowhere in Greek

talked about an island that couldn't exist and where everything is perfect, like a dream

the real world is a mirror of the supernatural

macrocosm

microcosm

radical change involving all cultural field

religion (gradual passage from the influence of Roman church yo the reformation influence)

art and architecture (the humanists get inspiration by the classical style)

science (the new discoveries led to a new interpretation of the world)

philosophy (from scholasticism to a new scientific philosophy)