During the Elizabethan era‚ women were often mistreated and believed to be inferior to men. Clearly‚ being dominated by all males was the practice of the day. Shakespeare‚ a distinguished English poet‚ playwright and actor‚ believed that women should have more power and obtain the ability to choose whom they wish to marry. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ he provides a dramatic depiction of his viewpoint through the tragic heroine‚ Juliet Capulet. During the Elizabethan period‚ women had a very
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Picture yourself in the shoes of women of the Elizabethan time period. This would be much different from how women live now. This was a time period that had an ideal which was typically met‚ and women didn’t have much of a choice to like it. It was rare for someone to speak out‚ and it was nearly unheard of. The women of the Elizabethan time period were faced with such high standards shown in the book Much Ado About Nothing. That the life the lived would be shocking to see today. The women were expected
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consisted of a breastplate and backplate. These were worn over a doublet for ceremonial purposes. Later in the Elizabethan period‚ men wore a falling collar which was a lace-trimmed collar turned downward. As a decorative overgarments‚ men wore a surcoat which was a cape that had a standing collar. This man is depicted wearing a hat with a feather and a sword‚ also not uncommon for men in the Elizabethan
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Popularized in renaissance drama‚ comedy was defined in Shakespearean times as stories that had happy endings for the protagonist. Comedy has expanded beyond that because there are so many types of comedy and happy endings is a quite a broad definition for comedies. Many people have darker senses of humor which do not always involve happiness. Satirical comedies also are not necessarily “happy”. Comedy is truly based on the way you were raised. Comedy is used to cope with negative situations. Therefore
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development: When one thinks comedy‚ the first impression that comes to mind may be a bundle of gags and pranks‚ or clever wording and bizarre situations that bring joy and laughter to its audience‚ or its victims (mostly). Deriving from Ancient Greece‚ comedy was first recognised as a genre when many playwrights started to satire political situations‚ which not only attracted masses of people but also influenced their views on political figures. As time passed on‚ so did comedy pass on from one generation
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Comedy and Tragedy | | Comedy According to Aristotle (who speculates on the matter in his Poetics)‚ ancient comedy originated with the komos‚ a curious and improbable spectacle in which a company of festive males apparently sang‚ danced‚ and cavorted rollickingly around the image of a large phallus. (If this theory is true‚ by the way‚ it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "stand-up routine.") Accurate or not‚ the linking of the origins of comedy to some sort of phallic
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In the Elizabethan society many problems occurred as a result of the country changing during that time. Many problems of the problems are intertwined with another affecting each other equally making them harder to deal with. The main problem faced in Elizabethan society was the changing population‚ during the 1300 there have been up to 6 million people living in England and Wales. However the population naturally decreased‚ deaths began to exceed births due to diseases such as the ‘black death’
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The Characteristics of Shakespeare’s Comedies Shakespeare wrote many different forms of literary works and one of them is comedy. At the end of his professional life he had written four famous comedies which were later called his "romances". Shakespeare’s comedies were not primarily love stories but they all included a love plot. His romances all had the happy ending of a comedy‚ but in a way they hinted on violence (Prentice Hall Literature). His focus and emphasis was clearly towards the
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Iago rewrites Othello: “A play that begins as a romantic comedy‚ but which ends as a tragedy” Evaluate the relationship between tragedy and comedy in light of this comment” Written in 1604‚ Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most highly concentrated‚ tightly constructed tragedies‚ with no subplots and little humor to relieve the tension. Although he adapted the plot of his play from the sixteenth-century‚ Italian dramatist and novelist Giraldi Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi‚ Shakespeare related almost
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Comedies were performed in the Great Dionysia just like tragedies; also comedies were entered in contests in other festival‚ known as the Lesser Dionysia‚ and it was celebrated in the winter. Comedies combined poetry with coarse language. For example they featured buffoonery‚ slapstick‚ obscenity‚ and horseplay. The comedy actors dressed in weird costumes that had paddled bellies or rumps for outrageous effects. “The comic playwrights made their own plots and they focused on important matters
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