Renaissance 1500-1670 Flashcards
1
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Algemeen
A
- Italian stories were used as an inspiration for many english playwrights and poets
- the catholic church became less powerful and people became more tolerant
- more ‘human’ characters in plays in theaters
- anthrocentric : human being in the middle of society
- interest in science and greek and latin literature
2
Q
William shakespeare
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- born in Stratford-upon-Avon
- he was the first playwright to give a character the oppertunity to share his thoughts with the audience -> dramatic monologue
- Shakespeare theater -> the Globe
3
Q
The globe
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- rijken mensen zaten boven met de beste plekken
- gat in de grond om bijv iemand te laten verdwijnen
4
Q
Dramatic monologue
A
- audience knows more that the speaker
- audience gets a look in the thoughts of the character
- solilogy
5
Q
Elizabethan theatre
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- popular entertainment
- no female actors
- costumes and stage
- the actors and writers were the boss of the companies
- the plays belong to the companies
- jokes for people with a higher and lower intelligence so that everyone understand them
6
Q
Italian sonnet
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- octave (8 regels)
- break of thought
- sextet
- abba abba cdc cdc (or cde cde)
*sonnet has 14 lines
7
Q
English sonnet
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- quatrain (4 regels)
- quatrain
- quatrain
- break of thought
- couplet
- abab cdcd efef gg
8
Q
Shakespeare wrote three kinds of plays
A
- comedies
- chronicle plays
- tragedies
