Ohne Titel

Shakespeare and his time

Historical Background

16th century

Elizabethan Era

From the 2nd half of the 16th

to

the beginning of the 17th

changes / innovation

3 AREAS

Culture

Religion

Politics

Humanist thinking grow

Reformations

Individuality

self consciousness

Social

Structure

Family

Church

Patronage

Government

Beginning

Tudor's dinasty

Renaissance

Reformation

Movement that flourished in Italy (15th C.) uknown in England till Henry VII

Rebirth of letters and arts

Increase of Latin

Study/Recovery canonical texts

End feudal system

London (Capital)

Growth Middle Class

Result

Social Movility

Development Individuality

Reinforced by the Caxton Printing Press

Result of 100 years war

Henry VIII

Break with Catholic Church

Head of the church of England

Important for language

Translation Bible

Pope denied him the divorced from Catherine of Aragón

Edward

the VI

Anglican church > Institution

Act of Uniformity (1549)

42 articles

Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary)

Extremely Catholic

Exile protestants

Elizabeth the 1st

(1558)

Balance religions

Improvements many fields

Traveling

popular

UK in contact with Europe

Humanis and Intellectual European life become a hit

Narrow Sense

Broadsense

study, imitation, teaching...

understand life as sth beautiful and exciting

Golden

age

Flourishment English Literature

Exploration

Science

Medicine

Technology

Influence by Italian Renaissance

Patronage

Increase publication + readers

Writing not 1st occupation

Universities

Literary convenctions

Nature

Gender hierarchy

Concern with models and literary tradition

Style from popular culture

Lack of standard English

Literature

1st works

Navigations,

voyages and discoveries.

Richard Hakluyts

Stories about ordinary lives