The Renaissance

Shift from Ptolemaic system
to the heliocentric view

Thinkers began to investigate
on fields such as astronomy
and anatomy

Artists such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci
get inspiration from the Greek and Latin culture

Gradual passage from the Roman Church
to the Reformation of Luther and Calvin

Shift to inductive thinking

The thinkers of that period were called
Humanists

The man became subject of study
instead of God

Thomas More was one of the most
important English humanists

He wrote the book Utopia

It talks about an ideal place because
the intellectuals of that time struggled
to imitate the ideal models

1485-1558: The beginning of the Reinassance.

1588-1603: The flowrishing of the Reinassance

1603-1625: The decline of the Reinassance

Henry Tudor defeated Richard III in the
Battle of Bosworth and he was given the
title of Henry VII

William Caxton introduced printing in England
and this helped people to learn how to read and write

Mixes popular entertainment and
refined culture making it appealing
to everybody

It contains Medieval genres
like the masque and the interlude

Imitation of a serious action
without narration

It should arouse pity and horror
and achieve catharsis, the purification
from this emotions

It has a classical structure of 5 acts

The catharsis is reached with
the death of a sinful hero

Main theme is the dualism of order/disorder

Seneca is the most used model

The scene is dominated by disillusionment,
cynicism and cruelty due the problems
under the reign of James I

New audience of aristocratic people
and introduction of women on stage