Cultural and artistic movement in England 16 th century through early 17 th century Associated with European Renaissance Believed to have begun in Italy English Renaissance

Often called Age of Shakespeare or Elizabethan Era

English Renaissance Important playwrights: –William Shakespeare –Ben Jonson –Christopher Marlowe

English Renaissance Important poets of the period: –Edmund Spenser –John Milton Important philosophers: –Sir Francis Bacon –Sir Thomas More

Period in England associated with rule of Queen Elizabeth I ( ) Relatively peaceful time Elizabethan Era

Considered Golden Age of English history

Elizabethan Era Height of fashion in England Influenced by French and Spanish styles

Elizabethan Era Annual festivities broke up daily life People looked forward to celebrations Many still celebrated today

Elizabethan Era Other celebrations include: –Valentines Day –April Fools Day –Christmas Season (13 days celebrated from Christmas Eve through Epiphany Eve)

Bubonic and pneumonic plagues caused 14 th century Black Death Spread through Europe, Middle East and Asia Recurred every generation for centuries The Plague

Occurred again in England during Caused all theaters in London to close Shakespeare wrote long, narrative poems

Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon Actual date of birth uncertain Shakespeare Biography

Biography Father was John Shakespeare

Biography At 18: married Anne Hathaway At 19: had daughter 1585: had twins

Biography Believed to have left for London : became member of Lord Chamberlains Men Troupe became Kings Men in 1603

Biography Wrote and performed in plays Most widely-read playwright Also wrote poetry

Shakespeare wrote or collaborated on 39 plays Plays divided into three categories –Comedies –Tragedies –Histories Shakespeares Plays

His plays remain popular today Have been made into films and other plays SIngle click for audio clip >>>>

The Comedies Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The Winters Tale

Characteristics of the comedies include: –False/mistaken identities –Toils of love and marriage –Good versus Evil Songs written for comedies Only text exists The Comedies: Themes

Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth The Tragedies

Most popular tragedies: –Hamlet –Julius Caesar –Macbeth –Romeo and Juliet Single click for audio clip >>>>

The Tragedies: Themes All Shakespearean tragedies: protagonist falls from grace and dies Tragic hero, tragic flaw An unhappy ending

King John Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V The Histories

Wrote two narrative poems during plague years Dedicated to Earl of Southampton Shakespeares Poetry

Poetry Other narrative poems: The Phoenix and the Turtle and A Lovers Complaint Sonnets are most well-known Form is fourteen lines of iambic pentameter

Poetry Published 154 sonnets First 17 thought written to young man Advises young man to marry, have a child

Poetry Sonnets written to young man Celebrate speakers love for young man Single click for audio clip >>>>

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shall I compare

Poetry Sonnets present the Dark Lady Woman presented as treacherous

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