Context Flashcards
When did Queen Elizabeth I die
1603
What was John Dee dubbed?
A magus
When was the play written
1611
What was special about the black friars theatre about?
It was indoors so could have special effects
Who wrote the cannibal essays?
Michel De Montaigne
When did John Dryden write the echanted island?
Why was it different?
1660
More romantically and sexually funny rather than focusing on politics
When was the Bermuda ship wreck?
1609
What did William Strachey write?
Accounts of what happened
Who wrote the masque hymenaei in 1613
Ben Johnson
Who was the first person to suggest that Prospero was Shakespeare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When was the psychology on colonisation written?
1950
When was the statue of Shakespeare with Prospero’s epilogue as the epitaph constructed?
1740
When were Ovid and virgil’s metamorphoses translated and who by?
Golding in 1567
When did Queen Elizabeth have to postpone her wedding to Frederik of Bohemia? and why?
Who’s situation does this reflect?
1612- prince Henry died
Alonso
When was utopia by Thomas more written?
1516
when did Shakespeare’s theatre get possession of the Blackfriars theatre?
1608
which word was created in Jacobean society that Shakespeare liked to use?
Equivocation
who was the man that King James had an obsession with?
Robert Kerr
When was QEI’s body dug up and moved from fwestminster and replaced with Mary Queen of Scots (buried next to Margaret Beaufort)?
1606
When did Ben Johnson write Hymenaie?
1606
Who’s wedding was Johnson’s masque for?
Earl of Essex and Francis Howard
Who did Francis Howard later marry after divorcing for not consummating her marriage?
Robert Kerr
Which play was a rival to the tempest?
Johnson’s Bartholemew Fayre
What was the name of the God that Native Americans and Caliban worshipped
Setebos
Which other explorer went on a voyage that provides Renaissance experience of the New World? and where did he encounter the natives?
Magellan
Patagonia
What was the name of one of Drake’s voyagers who wrote accounts?
Francis Fletcher
What opinion did Fletcher have of the natives and what is this seen through in the play?
Negative as they tried to mutiny but also amazed at their infatuation with alcohol- reminiscent of caliban
Who else wrote pamphlets on the survivors of the Bermuda wreckage in 1609?
Richard Rich- common coin of Shakespeare’s day
