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Samenvatting literatuurgeschiedenis Engels + Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare’s lifeShakespeare:
● Born: April 23, 1564 in Stratford
● Married: Anne Hathaway
● Company: Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later ‘The King’s Men’)
● Theatre: The Globe
● Home: New Place
● Death: in 1616, age 52
● Buried: Holy Trinity Church in Stratford
Facts / successions Religion Relation
- Pope is head of Church Catholic
- Church is powerful and wealthy
- Rebellion against excesses of Church > leads to Protestantism via Reformation
Henry VIII - heir to throne in 1502 > crowned in 1509 Protestant Father Mary +
- divorced - beheaded - died Elizabeth +
- Act of Supremacy = everyone admit his authority + swear loyalty to him as head of Edward
Church of England.
- established Protestant Church (via the Reformation)
- persecuted Catholics
Edward VI - King at age 9 Protestant son Henry
- keeps fathers religion
Mary I - Queen in 1553 (after Edward) Catholic sister Elizabeth
- brings back Roman Catholicism > returns England to Pope’s authority daughter Henry
- persecuted protestants (‘Bloody Mary’) mother James
Elizabeth I - Queen in 1558 Protestant sister Mary
- restores Protestantism (illegal to be Roman Catholic) daughter Henry
- allows freedom of believe as long as it doesn’t openly flout the law or promote
treason
- new Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity re-establish England's independence from
Pope
- loved theatre (commanded plays)
- dies in 1603
James I - new monarch after Elizabeth son Mary
- James VI of Scotland > James I of England
- loved theatre (commanded plays)
- becomes patron of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men > renamed The King’s Men
Puritans = strict Protestant faction who became powerful in London after death of Elizabeth I.
- Goal: completely reform Church of England > make it plainer and stricter.
- Hated theatre (deplored Globe Theatre)
Theatres History Related company / people
The Red Lion - first London playhouse Elizabeth
(1567) - attempt to provide venue for many Tudor touring theatrical companies
The Theatre - built by James Burbage The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
(1576) - home to many companies Elizabeth
- after 1594: primarily Chamberlain’s Men Puritan (landlord)
- company demolished Theatre > carried structure across river > The Globe
- outbreak of plague closes theatres
The Curtain - built by James Burbage Elizabeth
- outbreak of plague closes theatres
The Rose - Henry VI part 1 produced by Lord Strange’s Men The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
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