Epic
romance - Gawain - hero’s journey
sonnet
epistle - letter
drama - Lear - public - dialogue - democratic
Shakespeare drew from Roman dramas
Elizabethan/ Shakespearean drama - spectacle, very showy, visually oriented, big costumes
stage - where the action happens
audience - the fourth wall - audience is not supposed to participate
proto-fiction - never invented anything new, recreations, based on true events
diagetic space of the stage - a world is being created that is not our own
Shakespeare started as an actor
actors not held to very high esteem
the theatre provided a product, jobs, actors, set builders etc.
a certain amount of education was needed for theatre
Ecology of elizabethan Theatre
A whole culture of theatre exists
subject matter - must include who you want in your audience in your play, everyone from the queen to the fishmonger, priests, nobles, etc.
there must be comedy in the tragedy
cosmic stories, fall of kingdoms, gravediggers and fishmongers included
subject matter key
language
not language of reality, not used daily
language of drama
the fool has different language than king Lear
great chain of being - method of ordering social universe, always begins with God followed by King
an apostrophe - speaking to nature - literary device
wilderness is a psychological impression
nature mimics what is going on with character
