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Elizabethan Tragedy
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Elizabethan Tragedy
By: Candelaria Aragón, Olivia Bosch, Ines Flores Vidal y Patricia Bozzoli.
Time:
1558 - 1603
Placed on England during the Elithabeth reign
Historic context
Elizabethan Era
- Spent much of her time in charge of religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants
- Popular monarch and her long reign helped establish England as a major European commercial and political power
- Fan of arts like poetry, music, and theater
Elizabethan Era
Consequences in writing
Consequences in writing
Plays used to be about the Bible and lives of the saints, and the Moralities. God being the central theme.
After Elizabeth ascends to the throne plays start to deal with human issues. So that people enjoy the plays.
William Shakespeare
- playwright, poet, and actor
- also called The Bard of Avon
- themes: tragedies, comedies, historical works, fantasies, Apocrypha, critical judgments
Shakespeare
The lord chamberlain's men
Shakespeare Stories
- Engages the world tension in Elizabethan England through writings of tragedy and humor.
- The figure of the hero must do or say something incorrectly for the tragedy to occur.
Stories
Tragic plays
Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus.
Shakespeare tragedy
Hamlet plot:
- centers on the murder of a cherished father
- conmemorates his dead son, Hamnet
Shakespere adversities
Adversities
- Elizabeth ban the entrance of the company from their new theater (financial trouble).
- Hamnet dead, Shakespeare's son.
The lord chamberlain's men
- Theatrical company founded in 1560 as Hunsdon’s Men
- Shakespeare was very close, they have a very good relationship
- Most popular London theater, thanks to his plays
Characteristics
Writing characteristics
Context:
- Critics of the queen
- Criticise indirectly
Writing:
- always ends in disaster
- there has to be an element that makes the hero go downfall
- hero has to be someone sympathetic to the eyes of the audience
- flaw is a personal quality or characteristic that leads the protagonist to make choices that ultimately cause a tragedy
- it is a mix of genres, it is serious but it has comic intrudes
Themes involved
- Anti-Semitism
- Disguise
- Humour
- Revenge
- The Supernatural
- Supernatural Elements (society of the time was highly superstitious with people believing in supernatural forces)
Themes involved
Writing devices
Theatricality: elements go beyond the written text
Soliloquy: expresses his thoughts and feeling aloud
Aside: private comment between a character and the audience
Monologue: character expresses his thoughts, aloud, about another character
Writing devices
Structure
act 1: Context, present characters
act 2: Introduce complication
act 3: Change of direction of the climax
act 4: Development
act 5: Final crisis, resolution explain
Structure
Space and Staging
- place in courtyards
- more production, use of costumes, and luxurious scenery
- open air
- rich people have assigned positions, they were able to seat down
- use of animals
Theater
Based on the evidence of the buildings of the time.
Capacity difference:
- original = 3000
- current one = 1400
The Globe Theater
- built-in 1599
- The Lord Chamberlain’s Men had long been performing in a facility known as the Theater
- 1596 → the lease on the Theater’s land expired
- 1598 → Shakespeare company moved, during the night, to another building where they create the theater the Globe.
- Construction ended in 1599
- The original Globe did not have a long life due to unforeseen events, but three more Globe theaters were built.
Changes in plays
Spectacle
- Women couldn't act, they were replaced by men.
- Mixed tragedy and comedy
- Great character personality. Heroic themes are destroyed by ambition.
- Broad topics: lovers, kings, nobles, etc