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John heywood ( 1497)
- interlude
Works : - the play of the wether - 1533
- a play of love - 1533
Wytty and wytless — 1533
2 examples of modern style moralities
John Skelton — magnificence 1516
John Redford — Play of wit and science
The first English comedy of the classical school
Ralph Roister Doister by Nicolas Udall — 1553
The tragedy
1562 — Gorboduc — Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
Shakespeare — Hamlet
Humanism represented by
- Sir Thomas More
- Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
Michel de Montaigne
The poem published in anthologies
- Richard tottel — Songs and Sonnets — miscellany
Major poets of Elizabethan age + oeuvre
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554) : Astrophel and Stella
- Edmund Spenser (1552): The Faerie queen — 1591
- William Shakespeare (1564): Venus and Adonis
Jacobean playwrights - Ben Jonson
Born 1572
- every man in his humour ( 1598)
- Volpone ( 1605)
- epicoene, or the silent woman - 1609
- the alchemist - 1610
- Bartholomew Fair — 1614
Jacobean playwrights - Beaumont and Fletcher
- the knight of the Burning Pestle - 1607
- Philaster, or love lies a-bleeding —- 1608
- the maid’s tragedy — 1619
Collab with Shakespeare:
- Henry VIII — 1613
- The two Noble Kinsmen — 1634
Jacobean : satires and tragicomedies : John Martson
- the Malcontent — (1604)
- Eastward Ho — 1605
Jacobean: satire and tragocomedies — Thomas Middleton
- Michaelmas Term And trick to catch the old one —- intrigue comedies
- the Roaring girl — social comédie
- women beware women — 1657
- the changeling — 1622
A Game at chess — 1624
Songbooks in 1596
William barley — A new Book of Tablature
Shakespeare predecessors
- John Lyly (1554) : compaspe (1580s)
- gorge peele (1558) : Edward I — the arraignment of Paris
- Arden of faversham : Arden of faversham
- Thomas kyd (1558) : the Spanish tragedy (1580s)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564) : the massacre of Paris (1590s) — Tamburlaine (1580s)
- Robert greene (1558): looking glass for London and England
William shakespeare
1564 — strong education
Actor and playwright
In the histories : famous plays
1st tetralogy: Henry VI — Richard III
2nd tetralogy: Richard III — 1&2 Henry IV — Henry V
Plot structure of comedies — Shakespeare
- Exposition
- Rising action
- Turning point
- Failing action
- Resolution ou conclusion
Major Tragédies de shakespeare
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Othello
- King Lear
Other tragedies
- Roméo and Juliet
- Caesar Julius
- Anthony
- cleopatra
- Coriolanus
Shakespeare romance
Blackfriars theatre : 1608
Key plays:
- the winter’s tale
- Cymbeline
- The tempest
- the two noble kinsmen
The 1623 first folio
The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,
By John Hemings and Henry condell
Included 36 plays
The masques
James I hosted fancy court masques mostly written by Ben Jonson.
These shows focused on spectacles rather than plot with mythological themes, songs, dance.
Indigo jones
Designed costumed for the masque of queens.
Jacobean playwrights :
- Ben Jonson (1572) : every man in his humour (1598)
Major works: volpone - the alchemist - Beaumont and fletcher: the knight of the burning pestle
- John marston : the malcontent
- Thomas Middleton : the roaring girl - women beware women
Beaumont and fletcher en collab avec shakespeare
- Henry VIII (1613)
- the two noble kinsmen (1634)
Caroline drama
Caroline drama was heavily influenced by past dramatist : sir John suckling
Some playwright from the Jacobean era, like Thomas Haywood.
Court masques
Caroline drama is known for its pastorals and elaborate court masques. Where members of royal family including Charles I and queen Henrietta Maria often performed.
3 major caroline playwrights
- John ford : ‘Tis pity she’s a whore — the broken heart 💔
- Philip massinger: the Roman actor — a new way to pay old debts
- Richard brome: the antipodes and jovial crew.
The closing of theatre (1642 - 1660)
Puritan opposition : theatre faced puritan disapproval.
- Stephen Gosson : school of abuse
- Philip stubbes: the anatomy of abuses
- William prynne : Histriomastix
The restoration : revival of theatre
Thomas killigrew
William Davenant
Restoration tragedies
John Dryden : restoration tragedy
- the conquest of Granada
- aureng-zebe
Restoration : comedy of wit
- george etherege:
The man of mode, or air Flopling Flutter - William gongreve:
The old batchelor
Metaphysical poets
- John Donne
To his mistress going to bed - George Herbert
The temple
Any dejected poor soul
Paradise in lost (1667)
John Milton
— his opposition to the monarchy after the commonwealth’s fall led to imprisonment and a fine under Charles II
Victorian age : The pre raphaelites
Were a loose and baggy collective of Victorian poets, paints, illustrators and designers.
The work privileged atmosphere and mood over narrative, focusing on medieval subjects.
One of the greatest masterpiece of the pre-raphaelites
- Millais
“Ophelia”
