THEATRE OF ELIZABETHAN: There were three different types of venues for Elizabethan plays: Inn yards‚ Playhouses and Open Air Amphitheatres a. Inn- yards: The Elizabethan Theatres started in the cobbled courtyards of Inns – they were called Inn-yards. As many as 500 people would attend play performances. Elizabethan acting troupes travelled the country and sought lodgings at inns or taverns and before long entrepreneurs‚ like James Burbage‚ started to produce plays at inn-yards – a popular
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The University Wits The University Wits were a group of late 16th century English playwrights and secular writers who were educated at the Oxford and Cambridge. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe‚ Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge‚ and John Lily‚ Thomas Lodge and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is sometimes considered as one of the University Wits but he did not read in any university. Nevertheless‚ Kyd’s plays show close resemblance to those of others members
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Machiavelli and Erasmus were both humanists‚ but had very different points of view. Machiavelli whose writing was from the Italian humanist ’s view‚ when Erasmus wrote from the points of view of Christian humanist in Europe may be one of reasons for huge differences in Machiavelli ’s and Erasmus ’ thoughts. However‚ these two styles of humanism provided us means to "generalize about the meaning of the Renaissance."(303). According to Lawrence in his book Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities
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Why Did Henry Break With Rome? Henry the VIII broke from Rome because of four main reasons: money‚ power‚ religion and succession. Some of the main reasons are linked together‚ one example is succession which is linked to power. By having a son he thought it would maintain his power at the throne when he was no longer ruler. I think that power was the most important reason. I think this because if he broke away from the Church of Rome‚ he could take control of the church. This meant that he could
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Shakespeare is trying to tell the audience the way Richard II rules England through imagery. In both of the scenes in this paper Shakespeare uses imagery to describe the way King Richard II has brought the country to ruin. This king needs replaced and in both speeches his bad deeds are spoken of through a metapohor of a garden. The speech in Act 2 Scene 1 is a way for Gaunt to tell Richard exactly how he feels about the way things have been going in England. In his dying breathe he describes
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church as Henry was slowly‚ but surely running out of money‚. If Henry controlled the church he would control the amount of taxes and tithes people had to pay‚ and if he controlled the church Henry could shut down all the monasteries (which he did in a period called `The Dissolution of the Monasteries 1535’) and take all the money and goods from them. Greed was very
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of Henry Tudor in replacing Richard III as king due to the events on the battlefield at Bosworth Clearly the death of Richard at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 was the final contributing factor to his demise‚ but it had certainly been brought about by Henry Tudor’s efforts and was undoubtedly not an event of simply sheer fortune for Tudor. It is the act of Richard breaking rank in a seemingly desperate final drive for victory that many site as the reason for the succession of Henry Tudor‚ though
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Queen Elizabeth I Characteristics or behaviors are traits that make a person who they are. Depending on those traits‚ the person can place either a positive or negative impact on others. When being placed in a position that regards a sense of authority‚ it is very very important to own positive and influential characteristics that will help lead a crowd. Although that is the obvious expectation of a leader or ruler‚ some people fail to meet this standard and take advantage of the ability that
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In the 1500’s the king of England was Henry VIII. He had already broken up with the Catholic Church and the Pop. He had made himself head of the Church of England. Also he had divorced with Catherine of Aragon and marred Anna Boleyn. His lifestyle was extravagant and he was also worried that he could be attacked by the Catholic countries of Europe. Under these circumstances he decided to close down the monasteries for the following reasons: * He was greedy and needed more money for his extravagant
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Louis XVI (also known as; Louis Capet or before he became king Louis-Auguste) born 23 August 1754‚ in Palace of Versailles‚ Versailles‚ Yvelines‚ France. He was King of France from 1774 until he was removed from his reign in 1789. Around a year later he was guillotined (21 January 1793.) Louis XVI was born of Louis‚ Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony‚ Dauphine of France. His grandparents on his father’s side were Louis XV of France and Marie Leszczyńska and on his mother’s side Augustus
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