ELIZABETHAN THEATRE.ppt

ELIZABETHAN THEATRE ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND Country unified, trade and commerce flourished Age of exploration Christopher Marlowe the most gifted of the “University Wits” Tamburlaine the Great The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Overpowering passion-ambition desire for knowledge 1. a tragedy playwright, contemporary of Shakespeare 2. expressed the humanist ideals about the infinite capabilities of Man, in the desire for power, knowledge and money Ben Jonson (1572-1637) a comedy playwright in the early 17th century; the 1st poet laureate (1616); Everyman in His Humour Volpone, the Fox William Shakespeare An artists interpretation of the 1599 Globe Major Literary Achievements During his literary career, William Shakespeare produced 37 plays, 154 sonnets and some long poems. Comedies Tragedies Historical Plays Poetical Works Comedies Taming of the Shrew As You Like It Merchant of Venice Measure for Measure Tragedies Shakespeare wrote 11tragedies, main ones as following: -- Hamlet -- Othello -- King Lear -- Macbeth struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the time, between justice and injustice. Historical Plays The Richard and Henry plays. Richard II (1594-95), Richard III (1592-93), Henry IV: parts 1 and 2 (1597-98), Henry V (1599), Henry VI: parts 1 through 3 (1591-92), Henry VIII (1613). Poetical Works Well-known long poems -- Venus and Adonis -- Lucrece 154 sonnets Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 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. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or by nature’s changing course, untrimm’d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Not lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines t