Tis Pity Context

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