THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Shakespeare'S Sonnets, Mystery Play, Shrew
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Words of this time: luggage, summit, generous, puking, lonely, swagger, gloomy, scuffle, Roman theatre virtually copied greek theatre falls ca. Catholic church outlaws actors, allows religious pageant plays and miracle plays. Plague, famine, war ravages europe for centuries. Renaissance is born in 1401 in florence, italy, giving birth to commedia dell"arte. Art and literature flourish all over europe. England breaks away from the catholic church in 1534 with the reformation (henry. Elizabeth i takes the throne in 1558, continuing the tudor family line, started by her grandfather henry vii. Elizabeth england identified herself as powerful and artistic as the greeks and romans had been. Theatre had become a recognized profession in england the queen loves and supports theatre. At 19, he married anne hathaway, who was 26 and pregnant with their first child. He moved to london leaving anne in stratford. Became a big name, made lots of money. Died there in 1616: we don"t know much more than that.
