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�Son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Henry’s reign was

revolutionary. �The Act of Supremacy (1534) cut

the connection between England and the Pope in Rome.

�Henry divorced from Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn. �The Pope did not approve ithemarriage because Catherine was Spanish and Spain was a great supporter of the Pope in Rome.

Henry VIIIand

The Act of Supremacy (reign 1509 - 1547)

Queen Elizabeth I(1533-1603)

�Daughter of Henry VII and Anne Boleyn (executed two and a half years

after Elizabeth’s birth), she succeeded the Catholic Mary I, Catherine of

Aragon’s daughter.

�She established The Anglican Religion and reinforced the British Navy,

defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada and got the supremacy over the

seas.

�She never married not to comprise her religious choices

Movies about Elizabeth I

MaryStuartQueen of Scots (1542 –1587)

�Legitimate child of King James V, Mary

became Queen of Scotland as Mary I when

she was about 1 year old.

�She married the Dauphin of France , then

(1558) King of France as Francis II (1559)

�After her husband's death(1560), Mary

returned to Scotland and married her first

cousin, Lord Darnley who died in an

explosion (1567).

�Mary married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of

Bothwell, but soon the couple was accused

of Lord Damley’s murder. She was

imprisoned and forced to abdicate in favour

of her one-year-old son, James VI.

�Mary fled to England asking Elizabeth’s ,

her first cousin, for protection.

�As Mary had previously claimed

Elizabeth's throne, Elizabeth had her

arrested and executed after 19 years for

treason and plots against her.

Mystery Miracle and Morality plays

Mystery plays: Bible stories accompanied by songs

Name: mystery �miracle, or �misterium= craft, performed by the craft guilds

• Miracle Plays: dramas about events in the lives of saints and martyrs.

• Morality plays : known as "interludes", allegorical plays: the protagonist meets personifications of various moral features who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil

� Everyman (1495), anonymous .

• First performed in Churches, all these plays were then performed in squares. on cards called pageants

Earliest plays in medieval times

(10th - 16th century).

First TheatresCharacteristics of the theatres:� round or octagonal, 2 sets of balconies,

without a roof, stage in the middle of the yard;

� no scenery, only rich customs of the period.� performance only during the good seasons.� no women actors, but only young boys. � cost of the tickets quite low, for everybody� continuous action � No copyright: it was a good thing to copy

other ideas.

�Seneca's influence: the division into five acts, use of monologues, sanguinary plot.

First permanent theaters:

The Theatre (J.Burbage, 1576)

outside the city walls.

The Globe and The Rose

(Shakespeare)

Official

documents tell

little about him.

Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)

���� Tamburlaine The Great, about

the conqueror Timur, from shepherd

to warrior

���� The Jew of Malta, about a Jew’s

revenge against the city authorities

����The Tragical History of

doctor Faustus, from a

German legend of a scholar’s

dealing with the devil.

Stratford-Upon-Avon (1564 -1616)

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate: ….

Poet and playwright , he is considered the

greatest writer in the English language.

�Tragedies: Hamlet ,Macbeth, King Lear, Othello and Romeo

and Juliet.

� Comedies: As You Like

It , Much Ado about

Nothing, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The

Tempest, The Merchant Of Venice.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare in paintings

Othello (1849) , E. Delacroix

Three Witches (1783) H. Fuseli

Titania and Bottom (1790)

H. FuseliJ. W. Waterhouse

Miranda –

the Tempest (1916)

Paintings

J. E. MillaisOphelia(1852)

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