THE RENAISSENCE: ELIZABETHAN THEATREWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

CLAUDIA ROCHAANGELINY TOBACIADELWING ARAUJO

MARIA FERNANDA CLARO

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Henry VII(1485-1509)

Henry VIII(1509-1547)

Mary I(1553-1558)

Lady Jane Grey(1553)

Elizabeth I(1558-1603)

Edward VI(1547-1553)

English Monarchy: The Tudors (1485-1603)

Elizabethan Theatre

A Brief History

• 1576–1678

“Elizabethan Theatre” is a general term covering the plays written and performed publicly in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603).

Notable Playwrights

• William Shakespeare

•Christopher Marlowe

Globe Theatre

• The Globe theatre was built in 1599 the Globe Theatre was opened on Bankside - the South of London.

• Up to 100 feet in diameter• Stage dimensions of the theatre varied from 20 foot

wide 15 foot deep to 45 feet to 30 feet

• Design and built based on the Colosseum, but on a smaller scale.

• Stage was raised - 3 to 5 feet, supported by large pillars.

Interior of the Globe Theatre

How to act in Elizabethan theater

• Against realism– Female roles played by boys– Doubling or tripling of roles– Lines learned roughly or poorly– Rehearsal time was minimal• Stylized movements and gestures• Improvisation must have been used

frequently

Playhouses

• Multi-sided open-air theaters built outside city limits of London– City forbade theater

on moral grounds– However, Queen

Elizabeth and other nobles supported theatre financially, so it flourished

Private Theaters

• Private meant they were indoors, not that they excluded people– Admission was more expensive, so poorer class

would be excluded only because they couldn’t afford it

• Staged productions in winter months or nighttime

• Smaller than public theaters• Stage probably extended to side walls• Pit seating faced one direction; galleries

and boxes faced three sides

Genres

Costumes

End of an Era

• From 1649-1660, England was controlled by Puritans

• Puritans were violently opposed to theatre– Believed that theatre was a den of

iniquity and taught immorality– Outlawed all theatrical activities

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April , 1564 and died on the 23rd of April , 1616.

• He became a member of the town council and held offices in the town's government.

• During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154sonnets.

• Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays.

• No one ever knew when was Shakespeare actual birthday

• He invented the word "assassination". He was called Bard of Avon and was said to have made up half of the dictionary we use today.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATER

His plays were specially acted for the King . These are his top 5:01 – Hamlet02 – Romeo and Juliet03 – Henry04 – Midsummer Night’s Dawn05 – Macbeth

How did the set-up affect the plays that Shakespeare presented?

In social system, it shows how poor the poor people are and how rich the wealthy people are. Shakespeare’s plays reflect the big difference between the classes of people.

FIRST ACT RIVALS FAMILIES

THE MASKED BALL PARTY

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

SECOND ACT

THE YOUNG LOVERS MAKE A

DECISION.

THEY GET MARRY AT FRIAR LAURENCE’S

CHURCH.

THIRD ACT

THE DUEL BETWEEN TYBAL

AND ROMEO

EXILE

FOURTH ACT

JULIET ‘S POISON

JULIET ‘S FUNERAL

FIFTH ACT

JULIET’S PLAN FAILS.

JULIET ‘S DEATH.

ROMEO AND JULIET ‘S FUNERAL

ASPECTS

• Social Aspect

• Human Aspect

Social Aspect

Fighting between families from the same social class.

Human Aspect

LOVE FATE HATE

ROMEO AND JULIET GENRE

Tragedy

ROMEO AND JULIET WRITING STYLE

Epic

Poetic

Romantic

SIMILE

FIGURES OF SPEECH

OXYMORON

METHAPHOR

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Christopher Marlowe

Born in Canterbury, England, in 1564.

While Christopher Marlowe's literary career lasted less than six years, and his life only 29 years, his achievements, most notably the play The Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus, ensured his lasting legacy.

He studied at the University of Cambridge.

In London related to the Admirals’ Men, a troupe of actors for which he wrote most of his works.

Literary career

The major works of Marlowe contain a central character, dominated by passion and doomed to destruction by excessive ambitions.

They are also characterized by the beauty and the sound of the language and its emotional force, that occasionally rampage till you drop in the bombast. The best-known poetic work of Marlowe is the passionate Shepherd (1599)

Plays

• Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1586) (possibly co-written with Thomas Nashe)

• Tamburlaine, part 1 (c.1587)• Tamburlaine, part 2 (c.1587–1588)• The Jew of Malta (c.1589)• Doctor Faustus (c.1589, or, c.1593)• Edward II (c.1592)• The Massacre at Paris (c.1593)

Legend It is said that it was a secret agent of the Government and that his friends included prominent personalities of the time, such as sir Walter Raleigh.

Marlowe was atheist sympathizer of Machiavelli and led a dissolute and adventurous life.

In 1593 he was accused of heresy, but until it was possible to take action against it, in May of that same year he was stabbed to death in a tavern in Deptford, for refusing, apparently, to foot the Bill for dinner, although the circumstances of his death remain a mystery.