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