Thursday 23 May 2024

The Context of Shakespearean Drama

 Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616. In that time he wrote 38 plays; every one of them was different. It was a time of learning and Shakespeare had a lot of ideas. Also during that time ideas from classical Greece and Rome were revived and spread across Europe and Italy. New artistic techniques were developed and many talented artists and sculptors emerged, especially in Italy, such as Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, and others.  He was alive during Elizabethan time, and his plays were set in the same time, adding relevance to them during that time, they were also set in England. Everyone could come to his shows. It ranged from poor low pay working people to royalty and everyone in between.  He did shows everywhere, not just in theatres, so anyone and everyone could enjoy. His plays had jokes and dirty comments to interest the part of the audience that worked low jobs and poems for the royalty and upper class people.

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