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| What did Shakespeare represent? Who watched the plays? |
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| The Love of drama during the Elizabethan Age in which the theatres of London witnesses the patronage of lords and commoners alike. |
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| What did Shakespeare's plays have in them? |
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| His plays had action, spectacle, comedy, character, and intellectual stimulation deeply reflective of the human condition. |
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| Who did most playwrights write for? |
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| They wrote for a specific professional company, of which they became a partial owner. |
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| What are the three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote? |
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| Comedies, tragedies, and histories. The third category represents a particularly Elizabethan type. |
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| Who was Christopher Marlowe? |
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| An English dramatist that resided in London and wrote actively for the theatre. |
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| What acclaimed plays did Marlowe write? |
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| Tamburlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus. |
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| What device did Marlowe establish with his verse? |
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| Blank verse - it consists of nonrhyming lines of iambic pentameter- lines of five metrical feet in which each foot has two syllables, th second one generally bearing the rhythmic stress. |
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| Who wrote the play Tamberlaine the Great and what was it about. |
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| Marlowe. It's about Tamburlaine's quest for power and luxury and possession of beauty, as he rises from being an obscure shepherd to a powerful conqueror. He becomes obsessed with power and he succumbs to a fatal illness, a victim of his own weakness. |
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| Who wrote Doctor Faustus and what is it about? |
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| Marlowe. It tells the tale of human temptation, fall, and damnation in richly poetic language. The devil is his slave for 24 years, then he is the devil's slave for eternity. |
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| Marlowe's love of what permeated his works? |
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| What does Marlowe sometimes develop weakly? |
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| His characters. But if his character development is occasionally weak, the heroic grandeur of his action has the universal qualities of Aeschylus and Sophocles. |
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| Who's comedy stood in contrast to Marlowe's heroic tragedy? |
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| Who wrote the play Every Man in his Humor? |
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| What is the play Every Man in his Humor about? |
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| It documents the lives of a group of Elizabethan eccentrics. |
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| What was Ben Johnson's writing style? |
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| His wit and pen were sharp, and his tolerance was low. His plays were often vicious caricatures of contemporary individuals. |
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| Where were most Elizabethan dramas performed? What threatened the events. |
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| Outdoor theatres that were made of wood and fire always threatened the theatres. |
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| Who was the English dramatist that resided in London and wrote actively for the theatre. |
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| Who's love of sound permeated his work? |
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| What did Ben Johnson write? |
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