Who Was Shakespeare Flashcards
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Theatre Preceptions
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Often looked down on by church (people watch on Sundays), associated with gambling dog fights, prostitution etc
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Globe Theatre
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Permanent theatre in 1599, first one was in 1576 called the theatre
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London Theatre
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- Under patron system
- Male actors in trades guilds
- Collaborative
- loud audiences
- other sources of entertainment
4
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Robert Greene
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University Wit, Earliest mention of Shakespeare in print
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Christopher Marlow
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Famous for tragedies, powerful verse and overreaching villans, influence and collab with Shakespeare (Titus, Richard 3, Hamlet)
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Ben Jonson
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Rival Playwright/ poet, mad fun of his latin and greek
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Shakespeare’s collaborations
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- idea of single authorship still somewhat new
- plays starting to be seen as literary
- Many plays based of earlier plays or works of fiction
