ENGB32 Lecture : lecture 2
Document Summary
The curtain, the globe, the date of the first london theatre. Population of london ( 1520: 60 000/ 1550: 120 000/1600: 200 000) Places within the theatre: the yard; groundings; lord"s room. Quarto: first folio (1625); foul papers; fair copy; the book of the play / promptbook. The theatre and theatricality of early modern london life. The english renaissance: early 16th century - mid/late 17th century. Shakespeare"s life : baptised april 1564 - april 1616. Renaissance - rebirth that came out of italian and mediterranean art. Revisiting classical texts (greek and latin) that influenced britain. Historical period that marks many of our ideas. The fruition of everything classical or the beginning of where we were going to go. Read again, tracing where the sonnet the tone seems to shift. London and its liberties: de souza engb32h3 page 1. Before londoners began attending performances and flock to the globe theatre in numbers +3,000.
