ENGL 2151H Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - William Shakespeare, Titus, Titus Andronicus
20 Nov 2018
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Important social and cultural institution, but also a site of potential subversion a dangerous locus of new and potentially problematic ideas: form of the theatre was also suspect a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to (cid:862)a(cid:374)titheat(cid:396)i(cid:272)alists(cid:863) like gosso(cid:374), Lecture 1: born in 1564 (april 23rd?) in stratford-upon-avon to john shakespeare and mary arden, third of eight children, though the first two died young, making william the eldest. He also would have had early experience with theatre: also likely left school at 14 to begin a 7-(cid:455)ear appre(cid:374)ti(cid:272)eship i(cid:374) his father(cid:859)s trade, though he moved to london before he finished. In some ways, looked back to the classical worlds of greece and rome as models for. I(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1009)8(cid:1004)s, s(cid:373)aller, (cid:862)pri(cid:448)ate,(cid:863) i(cid:374)door theatres start to sho(cid:449) up (cid:894)(cid:373)ore e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)si(cid:448)e, different resources/conditions) Master of the revels had licensed all plays, to ensure no prominent persons were slandered and no immorality promoted. Athenian he is to anoint with love-juice: 2. 1. 259-66 (cf.
