Quotes :
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
To her ladies-in-waiting.
Chamberlin, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth (1923), ch. 9.
It is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men is not to be compared.
To the French Ambassador when he complained about waiting six days for an answer to
Elizabeth marrying a prince of France.
Chamberlin, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth (1923), ch. 23.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
To the Spanish Ambassador, on arrested Catholics.
Chamberlin, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth (1923), ch. 11.
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Sports: * Elizabethan Hunting - 'At Force' Hunts were the most strenuous forms of hunting, designed for fit, young and very active men who worked in teams to hunt ferocious wild boars * Elizabethan Tournaments - Tournaments or Tourneys included many team elements. The Melees featured teams of knights fighting on horseback and on foot * Battledore and Shuttlecock - these team sports were the ancestors of modern badminton * Elizabethan Bowls - Sir Francis Drake was famous to playing a game of Bowls, prior to fighting the Spanish Armada. It was believed that Bowls were also played in teams similar to the modern day ten pin bowling * Gameball - was a simple but extremely rough and violent
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era are often a product of the context of the text. However, through studying the theatricality of man and the pursuit of power, it is clear these notions transcend time and context. Shakespeare valued the way an actor could act within a play and theatre was valued in this context. Shakespeare also demonstrated how Richard pursued political power, whilst Shakespeare himself…
poet and a playwright and soon many theatres were calling upon him to write more plays. The company was very successful and popular simply because William Shakespeare was performing and working for them. He was the Company’s leading member. His company often performed plays for Queen Elizabeth and her court; they were always satisfied with the outstanding performances and scripts. Shakespeare began to write poems when London authorities closed public theatres because of the fatal outbreaks of…
writers the creativity to voice their concerns through their characters about social, religious or political views. Madness, a major theme in Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear, adds to the atmosphere of self-destruction. Insanity was prevalent during Elizabethan times (Bali, S., 2014). Characters that were crazy, were easy for people to relate to. Shakespeare used insanity and political turmoil to “recreate and underscore the political and social ramifications of the irregularities and abnormalities of…
Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families…
at the context, you’re looking at how and why Richard 3rd reflected their social and historical context. -> Why and how were these texts created? CONTEXT: effect of social, historical and cultural texts. (What is the impact of if?) Deformities = evil – Richard 3rd - the ‘other’ CONNECTIONS: what do we learn by exploring the connections in texts? MUST include synthesis in writing. I.e. “can also be seen in/with” Looking at tests as pair and how they creating meaning. How meaning shaped and reshaped…
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Physical theatre Physical theatre is a genre of theatrical performance that pursues storytelling through primarily physical means. Several performance traditions all describe themselves as "physical theatre", but the unifying aspect is a reliance on physical motion of the performers rather than or combined with text to convey the story. In basic sense, you talk through hand gestures, body language, thought track and many more physical features. Dympha Callery suggests that all physic…
