ENG 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: High Culture, Dementia, Dianoia
28 Nov 2013
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April 23 st george"s day (patron saint, england) Came to london in late 1570s, at a moment when professional theatre was just being invented. There was no permanent place for putting on plays in the uk until: he wrote about 40 plays and produced them regularly (2 plays/year), one fun/light play and one heavy/difficult one. In order to make money with these new professional theatres, you had to have a show to bring people in. Young people went to the south side outside, and to see a play in the theatre. Invented professional theatre for his generation, his job was to write the scripts that would be mounted in professional theatres. From 1611-12, he made enough money to buy a house in stratford. When they started, they weren"t high culture, but low culture. Represented as his farewell to the theatre.
