EN 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Julie Andrews, Valorisation, Animal Husbandry
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Song/dance changing material circumstances of the stage, the. Globe and its competition; black friars indoors allowed for more intimacy and quiet environment. Kingship: elizabethan queen elizabeth, jacobean james i 1603-1625, had immense cultural importance to shakespeare; replaced gender fluidity of the court. Under the greenwood tree donovan (song: simple; less concerned with status, more about taking simple pleasure in nature and love; central myth of the play, seen in the play at (2. 5. 40) Falling in love is paralleled in the song as in the play; opportunity for song. Interaction between the city and the country; the baroness and the captain have just come from vienna to escape turmoil, to the country house and having fun: rebirth/renaissance in the pastoral. Interest in classical literature, defined shakespeare"s culture; the fascination with ovid, virgil and classical texts and the reworking of them; pastoral is key to classical literature and so it is important to shakespeare.
