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Tis Pity
Context
- Social setting
- middle class
- Education and Learning
- During Renaissance/ early
modern period, universities
taught the rhetoric, intellectual
approaches to argument
- question social
custom and
conventions
- university of
Bologna interest in
investigating
Anatomy =, 13th
century Italian
physician - credited
for reintroducing
the practice of
publicdissection
- where Giovanni went
- John Ford
- Middle Temple
London 1602
- work is common with earlier
writers, many critics refer to him as
Jacobean writer
- Revenge tragedy
was flourished during
Jacobean period
(1603-1625)
- Women
- Renaissance
daughters had to
become wives
so that father
can pass
patriarchal
responsibility to
husbands
- raised to
believe in the
reputation of
chastity
- play
- published
1633, maybe
written in 1631
- set in
Parma
- italians
thought of as
lustful,
unscrupulous
- Influences
- Robert Burton's
treatise The
Anatomy of
Melancholy
- During the
Renaissance
obsessive
fascination
with human
body
- dissection on
stages, public
entertainment
- Leiden
Anatomy
Theatre1609
- similarities to Othello
and Romeo and Juliet
- Charles 1629
- Parliament
dissolved
- civil war in
1642, Charles'
beheading in
1649
- politics:
Royalism Vs
Republicanism
- Royalism: monarchal
absolution, power to
the king
- Repulicanism:
democratic like
classical Athens
- 'Personal
Rule' 11
years
- Puritans vs Ch of
E vs Atheism
- belief: appointed
by God to govern
- Married
a
Spanish
Catholic
- attempts to
bring back
Catholic
Church,
redecorates
them
- Religion
- mainstream Protestantism