famous elizabethan playwrights
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ELIZABETHAN PLAYWRIGHTS
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ELIZABETHAN Drama
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Blackfriars Theatre
TheatreInteriors
Sketch of the Swan Theatre
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The Elizabethan Era (1558 -1603)
A golden age in Englishhistory.
height of the EnglishRenaissance, and saw theflowering of English literature
and poetry. Elizabethan theatre grew and
William Shakespeare, amongothers, composed plays thatbroke away from England'spast style of plays.
More people were educatedduring this time in London thanever before.
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Elizabeth I Symbolizes
the Age Queen Elizabeth Glory of England
To people, she represented beauty and
greatnessone of the most powerful countries in
the world
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British Empire
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Accomplishments
The Elizabethan age is characterized by a
quest for knowledge
Brought respectability to the theater
Colonized many parts of the world
Defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
Took over Scotland and Ireland
Emergence of the middle class
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Elizabethan Theatre
Why was Elizabeths reign such an important
period in the development of the theatre?How does it still influence us today?
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Drama in the Elizabethan Age
After defeating the Spanish Armada, England became
intensely interested in the past. (Patriotic) Historical plays
thrived.
Playwrights were practical men, bent on making a livingPlays were written to be acted, not read.
Once a playwright sold his manuscript, he had no personal
right to it.
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Genres of Elizabethan Drama
Genres of the period included the history play, which
depicted English or European history. Shakespeare's
plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard IIIand Henry V. Tragedy was a popular genre.
Marlowe's tragedies were exceptionally popular, such
as Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The
audiences particularly liked revenge dramas, such as
Thomas Kyds The Spanish Tragedy. Comedies
were common too. A sub-genre developed in this
period was the city comedy, which deals satirically
with life in London.
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Genres of English Renaissance
Theatre in Summary
History play (MarloweShakespeare)
Tragedy (revenge tragedyKyd, Marlowe,
Shakespeare)
Comedy (city comedyBen Jonson)
Romance (Shakespeare)
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The Playwrights (Before
Shakespeare)
In the 1530s, English drama was dominated by a
group of playwrights known as the University
Wits, who utilized a variety of genres including
Classic literature
Academic drama
Morality plays
Contemporary Renaissance literature from
Italy and France.
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ElizabethanPlaywrights
The most well known playwright of
Elizabethan times is Shakespeare. But
there were also other writers who in
their time were just as, or even more
famous than the Bard.
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PLAYWRIGHTS
The most famousplaywrights fromElizabethan times areChristopher Marlow,Ben Jonson, JohnLyly, and Thomas
Kyd.
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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Educated at Cambridge
Associated with the darker
side of the Elizabethan
period
Died in a tavern fight at 28
Most famous play The
Tragical History of Dr.
Faustus
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Christopher
MarloweContinue
MA from Cambridge
Established blank verse as
dramatic medium:Marlowes mighty line
Overreacher
Killed in a brawl
Tragedies:
Tamburlaine
Dido Queen of
Carthage
Dr. Faustus
Edward II
Massacre at Par
Jew of Malta
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BEN JOHNSON
Most influential afterShakespeare
Had strong convictionsabout what audiences should
likeArrogant, quarrelsome,volatile temper
Imprisoned 2 times
Most famousworks:Volpone, TheAlchemist, The Devil Is anAss
1stpoet Laureate of England
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Ben Jonson
1572-1637
Educated at Westminster School -- no university butthe most learned of playwrights
Important comedies of humor include: Every Manin H is Humor, Volpone, The Alchemist,Bartholomew FairWrote and staged court masques with Inigo Jones Celebrated poet and conversationalist:
Sons of Ben
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Lyly began his career as a writer
with several novels, called Euphues.
He then began writing plays, at first
mainly for young acting groups made up fromboys choirs. His plays often contained songsand commented on court life. His famousplays are Endymion(1591), Galathea(1592),
Love's Metamorphosis(1601), and TheWoman in the Moon(1597).
JohnLyly15531606
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Thomas Kyd 1558 1594Kyd was well educated and shared a room with
the other famous Elizabethan writer Marlowe.Kyd's play, The Spanish Tragedy(1589), was
the most popular and influential tragedy ofElizabethan times. Other plays attributed tohim are CorneliaandArden of Feversham. In1593, he was arrested on the charge of
heresy. He was eventually released but diedin poverty and disgrace.