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Context and cultural background in which Shakespeare’s Elizabethan theatre arose CULTURAL BACKGROUND Towards the end of the Middle Ages there was a revival of interest in […]

SOCIAL BACKGROUND The end of the Wars of Roses ,marking the transition from the Middle Age to the Renaissance (1485-1625) , brought about many social and […]

Text of “Hamlet”, a play by William Shakespeare ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V   Act 1 scene ii scene iii scene […]

THE MEDIEVAL THEATRE The actors of the medieval theatre were divided into small groups and turned for the roads, the city plazas and the countries completing […]

Elizabethan Theatre The beginnings In the second half of XVI century in England over a hundred theatrical companies were on before a paying audience in the […]

EUROPEAN THEATRE (1550 – 1630) The theatre is a kind of scenic performance, through the actors’ change in the characters, with the public’s partecipation. In Greek […]

AND TRAGEDY IN SHAKESPEARE’S AGE   Comedy and tragedy are included in the word drama ; it is the form of literature intended to be performed […]

William Shakespeare’s biography and works LIFE AND PLAYS Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23,1564. His father,John,made gloves but,when William was four,he was elected “bailiff” […]

Historical context of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Tudor period marked  the end of the medieval system and the rise of the modern age in […]