ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Geocentric Model, Euripides, Middle Ages
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Shakespearean times is when the theatres were not respected, ungodly, look down upon. Whereas in euripides times, there were rituals for theatres. Shakespeare didn"t care about how the theatre was portrayed: anyone could go to the theatre. Shakespeare"s goal was to entertain his audience: very successful, everyone loved his plays. No female actors, theatre was considered so immodest that it would be immortal to have a woman. The earth-centered ptolemaic universe implied that all beneath the moon was corrupt or. Fallen: derived from ptolemy ad, middle ages, believed that everything rotated around the earth. The earth is what the sun is today: geocentric universe, heliocentric universe is where the sun was the center and rotated around, it"s what galileo proposed how the universe worked. Below the moon, everything was fallen and became corrupt. Everything beyond the moon wasn"t fallen, there was an angel on each of the planets, full of music, pure air, ether.
