ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spanish Armada, Gunpowder Plot, Equal Love
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Context for shakespeare: pressures on the theatre in this time; specifically concerned with publicity. Society imagines theatre to be a corrupting influence of people. Elizabeth seeing herself in richard ii or whichever play it was; the problem of public criticism in this way. Comparison can be drawn between the problem of public affairs in this theatre and the theatrical nature of executions, etc. Questions of cross-dressing on the stage and its sexually provocative as well as gender-deconstructive connotations: legacy of shakespeare. Plays published in folios for the first time shortly after his death. Royal ascension a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)s du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g hakespea(cid:396)e"s life a(cid:374)d afte(cid:396: eliza(cid:271)eth i (cid:396)ules fo(cid:396) a la(cid:396)ge po(cid:396)tio(cid:374) of hakespea(cid:396)e"s life. Shakespeare wrote in a number of genres appropriate for the time. After defeat of the spanish armada, wrote histories contributing to the esta(cid:271)lish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the (cid:374)atio(cid:374)alisti(cid:272) (cid:862)tudo(cid:396) (cid:373)(cid:455)th(cid:863)
