Monday, 20 August 2018

The Age of Elizabeth

The Elizabeth Age

1) poet

     1.1)  Edmond Spenser [ 1552. - 15999 ]
> The faery Queen
> Shepherd's calendar
> Astrophel
>Amoretti
>Epithalamion
>Hymns

2) Minor poets
             2.1) Thomas Sackville [ 1536-1608 ]
>Gorboduc
>Ferrex and porrex
>The mirror for magistrates

             2.2) Philip Sidney [ 1554-1586 ]
>The Apologie for poetrie
>Defense of poesie
>Astrophel and Stella

            2.3) George Chapman [ 1559? - 1634]
>Iliad
>Odyssey
>Hero and Leander { finisher }

             2.4) Michael Drayton [ 1563 - 1631 ]
>Polybion
>Barons' Wars
>Heroic Epistle of England
>Ballad of Agincourt

3) The First English Dramatists
===> The origin of the dream.
===> Periods in the development of the drama
            3.1) The Religious period
            3.2) Miracle and Mystery plays
                 ===> " Ludus de sancta Katharina " ( 1110 ), St.Catherine,Geoffrey of
                       St.Albans.
            3.3) The Moral period of the Drama
                 ====> " Romance of the Rose ", " Everyman "," pride of life ",   
                       " Hyckescorner", "Castell of perseverance".
              3.4) The Artistic period of the Drama
                  ===> " Ralph Royster Doyster ", Nicholas Udall," Miles Glorious ".
              3.5) The Interludes
                  ===> " John Heywood [ 1497? - 1580? ] " The Four P's "
                       " Pardoner ,a Palmer, aPedlar,aPoticary,"

                      " The Theater "

{ *Not ===> In the year 1574 a royal permit to Lord Leicester's actors allowed them " to give plays anywhere throughout our realm of England ". Two years later the first playhouse, known as " The Theater ".*}


4). Shakespeare's Predecessors in the Drama.

======> Choir master of St.Paul and Royal and the Queen's Chapel
        Richard Edward ( Choir master of the Queen's Chapel in 1562 )


======> Regular playwrights
          4.2) ------> Kyd,Nash,Lyly,Greene,Marlowe
                ( John Lyly 1554? - 1606 )
                ( Thomas Kyd's Spanish tragedy 1585 )
                ( Robert Greene 1558?- 1592)
                ( Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay )

4.3)  *Christopher Marlowe [ 1564 - 1593 ]
         <Tamburlaine
         <Hero and Leander
         <Faustus
         <The Jew of Malta
         <The Merchant of Venice
         <Edward II

                 5      " Shakespeare " [ 1564 - 1616 ]

5.1). First period of dream , Early Experiment,
        <Venus and Adonis
        <Rape of lLucrece
        <Titus Andronicus
        <Henry VI
        <Love's Labour's Lost
        <Comedy of Errors
        <Two Gentleman of Verona
        <Richard III
          <Richard II
          <King John

5.2). Second period ,Development
          <Romeo and Juliet
          <Midsummer Night's Dream
          <Merchant of Venice
          <Henry IV ( first )
          <Henry IV ( second )
          <Merry Wives of Windsor
          <Much Ado About Nothing
          <As you Like It
          <Henry V

5.3). Third period of ,Maturity and Gloom
        <Sonnets
        <Twelfth Night
        <Taming of the shrew
        <Julia Caesar
        <Hamlet
        <Troilus and Cressida
        <All's Well That Ends Well
        <Measure for measure
        <Othello
        <King Lear
        <Macbeth
        <Antony and Cleopatra
        <Timon of Athens

5.4). Fourth Period Lates Experiment
         <Coriolanus
         <Pericles
         <cymbeline
         <Winter's Tale
         <The Tempest
         <Henry VIII { Unfinished }

5.5). Classification according to Sources
{ Comedes } == Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's midsummer, As you like it,
              Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Twelfth night.
{ Tragedies } == Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello.
{ Historical } == Julia Caesar, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Coriolanus, Antony and
               Cleopatra
6) Shakespeare's contempories and success in The Drama

            6.1) Ben Jonson [ 1573? - 1637 ]
                   <Every Man in his Humor
                   <Cynthia's Revels
                   <The poetaster
                   <Volpone or the fox
                   <The Alchemist
                   <Epicoene
                   <The Silent Woman

            6.2) Beaumont and Fletcher [ 1584 - 1616 ]
                   <Philaster
                   <Cymbeline
                   <The Maid's Tragedy
                   <Henry  VIII
                   <The Two Noble Kinsmen

            6.3) John Webster
                   <The White Devil
                   <The Duchess of Malfi
                 
             6.4) Thomas Middleton [ 1570 - 1627 ]
                    <The Changeling
                    <Women Be ware Women
                    <A trick to catch the old one
                    <A Fari Quarrel
       
         6.5) Thomas Heywood [ 1580?- 1650 ]
                <The woman killed with kindness
                <The Fair maid of the West

         6.6) Thomas Dekker [ 1570 - ? ]
                <The Shoemaker's Holiday
                <Old Fortunatus,

         6.7) Massinger ,Ford,Shirley,
               6.7.1) Philip Massinger [ 1584 - 1640 ]
                       <A New way to pay old Debts
                       <Great Duke of Florence
                       <The Virginia Martyr
               6.7.2.3.) John Frod [ 1586 - 1642? ] ; James Shirley [ 1596 - 1666 ]
                         <The Broken Herat
                         <Hyde Park
7.)  The Prose Writers

             7.1)  Fracis Bacon [ 1561 - 1626 ]
               <The Advancement of Learning
               <Instauration Magna
               <The Great Institution of the Philosophy
               <The New Atlantis
               <De Sapientia Veterum
               <History of Henry VII
               <Organum

            7.2)  Richard Hooker [ 1554 ? - 1600 ]
               <The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
       
             7.3)  Sidney and Raleigh [ 1554 -1586 ] , [1552 - 1618 ]
                     <Arcadia
                     <Pastoral romance
                     <Defense of poesie
                 
                     ( Raleigh )
                         <Discoveries of Guiana
                         <History of the world

             7.4)  John fox [ 1516 - 1587 ]
                     <Book of Martyrs
                     <Act and Monument
             7.5)  Camde and Knox
                     ( William Camden )
                       <Camden's Britannia ( 1586 )
                       <Annals of Queen Elizabeth
                     ( John Knox )
                         <History of the Reformation in Scotland
                       
             7.6) Hakluyt and Purchas
                     ( Richard Hakluyt [ 1552? - 1616] , Samuel Purchas [ 1575?- 1662]
                       ( Richard Hakluyt )
                           <Principal Navigation
                           <Voyaes
                           <Discoveries of the English Nation
                          ( Samuel Purchas )
                              <Purchas
                              <His Pilgrimage
                           
   
      7.7)   Thomas North [ 1535 ? - 1601 ?]
               <Plutarch's Lives






   
             
   
         

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