Renaissance Period 1300's-1600's

Question 1

What were Renaissance plays concerned with?

Answer 1

The plays portrayal of madness

Question 2

What were Renaissance plays portrayed as more than later interpretations?

Answer 2

They were notably more violent than later times

Question 3

What was the play famous for by the Jacobean Era?

Answer 3

The ghost and for its dramatisation of melancholy and insanity

Question 4

In 1655 what did Adam Wright observe about Renaissance interpretations of the play?

Answer 4

~lauds the humour of the gravedigger scene
~although suggests Shakespeare was outdone by Thomas Randolph, whose ferocious comedy, “The Jealous Lovers”, features both Ophelia and a gravedigger scene

Question 5

What did some scholars believe occurred during the Renaissance period?

Answer 5

Hamlet may have been censored

Question 6

What impact did the Puritan Commonwealth have on plays? What time period?

Answer 6

From 1640-1660 theatres were closed under the new commonwealth