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Le théatre Elisabethain

Publié le 17/11/2011

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Elizabethan theater is the theater movement that extends from the sixteenth and early XVIIth century in England dominated by Elizabeth I, Jacques I and Charles I.  Elizabethan theater is the golden age of English Theatre.  This theater is represented with an aesthetic that is free also sometimes called "baroque" set up by William Shakespeare.  From 1576, the first public theaters were built, the most famous is the world that greeted the cast of Shakespeare

« Skakespeare is known to be a great writer in the Elizabethan theater, in his tragedies he set up the passions, vices, human weaknesses and especially its consequences, namely, the fall and death of the hero.

Othello is the tragedy of jealousy, Macbeth, that of ambition, King Lear, one of selfishness, Romeo and Juliet, that of hatred and love. At that time the parts are more exuberant and optimistic.

They speak of death, domestic horrors, incest in large families. The first Elizabethan authors are from the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge: John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele.

The authors were poorly paid.

After his piece sold to a company, the writer was not receiving any further rights or representations about the publication.

Many supplemented their income by writing pamphlets. When the leagues of Parliament took control of the city of London at the beginning of the first English revolution, they have ordered the closure of all theaters in 1642.

The arrangement of Elizabethan plays, with its multitude of scenes, characters, and mixing of genres, survived the Restoration comedy.. »

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