During the Elizabethan era from 1558 to 1603 in England, drama evolved from focusing on religion and morality plays to becoming more secular in nature and focused on human characters and stories. Playwrights like William Shakespeare brought Italian influences and languages to England and helped establish a new genre of English literature. Notable plays from this time include Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, which established the revenge tragedy genre, and Shakespeare's Hamlet, which dealt with the imperfect nature of earthly justice compared to divine justice. Elizabethan drama flourished in famous London theaters and featured works that still resonate today.
During the Elizabethan era from 1558 to 1603 in England, drama evolved from focusing on religion and morality plays to becoming more secular in nature and focused on human characters and stories. Playwrights like William Shakespeare brought Italian influences and languages to England and helped establish a new genre of English literature. Notable plays from this time include Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, which established the revenge tragedy genre, and Shakespeare's Hamlet, which dealt with the imperfect nature of earthly justice compared to divine justice. Elizabethan drama flourished in famous London theaters and featured works that still resonate today.
During the Elizabethan era from 1558 to 1603 in England, drama evolved from focusing on religion and morality plays to becoming more secular in nature and focused on human characters and stories. Playwrights like William Shakespeare brought Italian influences and languages to England and helped establish a new genre of English literature. Notable plays from this time include Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, which established the revenge tragedy genre, and Shakespeare's Hamlet, which dealt with the imperfect nature of earthly justice compared to divine justice. Elizabethan drama flourished in famous London theaters and featured works that still resonate today.
England reigned from 1558 to 1603. • This was a time of extraordinary social change: a medieval society, human still believed in a Christian ordered universe, was yielding to a more modern and secular society. The History of Elizabethan • During the time, when Drama Europeans were starting to break out of cultural constraint - The renaissance developed across Europe, but had different emphases, it were religion, morality and philosophy in Germany (talking about God). - By the time Elizabeth’s reign ended, the theatres play that were secular their nature and about people. – This new Elizabethan theatre scene attracted writers, like Shakespeare who carrying many languages and cultures of Italian to England to be modern. It is conflict of ideas and values that makes the plays of the period so rich. In Elizabethan Drama, because it is about people rather than God, it modelled on the Greek comedy. Which is perfected by : - Shakespeare - Kyd - Webster & Middleton - Ben Jonson - Marlowe that is established a new genre in English Literature, like revenge play / tragedy.
– In Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (1587), a revenge tragedy about a
man who avenges his son’s murder. The hero Hieronimo longs for revenge, but also knows that he should await heaven’s justice. Kyd established a pattern for revenge tragedies, and many of the devices he uses, such as a ghost, a play within a play, scenes of violent murder and etc. – In Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600) revenge tragedies are concerned with a specific aspect of disorder in society, that is the problem of justice, like God should be perfect. But earthly justice is corrupt and imperfect (risk damnation). In Shakespeare’s play there is humour even in the darkest plays. There are some famous theatres of Elizabethan Drama, such as: – The psychopathic lago in Othello – Romeo and Juliet – Anthony and Cleopatra – Hamlet – The Spanish Tragedy