TH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: English Renaissance Theatre, University Wits, Renaissance Humanism
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Elizabethan theater and society: from medieval to elizabethan, elements of the new era, king henry viii (father of elizabeth) separates from catholic church in 1534 a) Acts of supremacy : kings exist outside rule of the catholic church. Invention of the carrack allows for travel trade and warfare: as trade routes are discovered so expands the human taste for tales of adventure. Tuesday, january 26, 2016: still we see a persistence in medieval thinking. Medieval cosmology: ptolemy"s geocentric model, earth is the center of the universe all other planetary spheres revolve around us . Pre-elizabethan theater: expansion of morality plays: elizabethan london (pop 200,000) becomes the largest city in europe, reign of queen elizabeth i (1588-1603), william shakespeare (1564-1616, queen elizabeth bans religious subjects, 1574 first royal patent. Intellectuals (the university wit: the internal struggles of the human psyche, complex choices beyond simple good vs evil (everyman)
