Shakespeare
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Transcript
Shakespeare
- History -> King Richard II
-> summary
-> construction and style
- Comedy -> Twelf Night
-> summary
-> construction and style
- Diffrence between history & comedy
Table of contents
King Richard II.
Background
- -> royal drama
- -> was written down around 1595 & premiered
- -> 1597 printed for the first time
- -> first piece of the Lancaster tetralogy
- -> A genre of its own, in which English history is illuminated
- -> first contribution to the Tudor myth
- -> in which the accession to the throne of the House of Tudor is glorified
- -> was written down around 1595 & premiered
King Richard II.
Background
- -> important source was Raphael Chronicle of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1587
- -> Drama was repeatedly banned out of fear
- -> leans heavily on the historical events at the end of the reign of Richard II.
- -> and his murder in 1400
King Richard II.
Summary
- ->King Richard II expels his cousin out of the country.
- ->He returns a short time later with an army and many allies.
- ->Richard is forced to cede the throne to Bolingbroke.
- ->He becomes King Henry IV.
- ->Richard is murdered by a rebel in the dungeon.
King Richard II.
construction and style
- ->The play is divided into five acts
- shows a two-pronged action
- -> which on the one hand the decline of Richard II.
- ->on the other hand describes the rise of Bolingbrokes, later King Henry IV
- ->The two narrative threads meet in the third act of the drama
- ->dissolve in the confrontation of the two main characters.
- -> written in verse form -> contains no prose
- ->Richard speaks very flowery and with many metaphors
- ->Bolingbroke speaks more prosaically and clearer, more direct words.
- ->Emotions are conveyed through excessive rhetoric
Background
Twelf Night
- -> the comedy written at the beginning of the 17th century
- -> during the last years under Queen Elizabeth I
- -> 1602 listed for the first time -> earliest document
- -> in the Middle Temple Hall of the Temple Church in London
- -> Main source an Italian play entitled Gl'ingannati
- -> the story Apollonius and Silla by Barnabe Riche from 1581 as a further template.
- -> resorted to his own plays, such as his Comedy of Errors
- -> “Twelf Night” -> maker the end of the traditional Christmas season
- -> symbolic for carnivalesque
- -> High points in Shakespeare's comedies -> is one of the most played works
Twelf Night
Summary
- ->Viola loves Duke Orsino,
- ->Countess loves Olivia,
- ->Olivia loves Cesario -> but Cesario is Viola disguised as a man,
- Complicated-> because neither Orsino nor Olivia know that Cesario is a woman
- -> it gets more complicated when Viola's missing twin brother turns up
- -> In the end there is a double wedding
Twelf Night
construction and style
- -> classic structure in five acts
- -> last act consists of one scene
- -> Typical features of an Elizabethan romantic comedy are present:
- -> Confusion, the motif of the separated twins and disguises
- -> Verses with many interspersed prose passages
- -> musical interludes: A total of six
- -> mannered choice of words of the duke
- -> clear and at the same time majestic choice of words Tone Olivia
Diffrence between history & comedy
Comedy
- Exaggerated and lighthearted depiction of human weaknesses
- Triggering liberating laughter in the audience
- Presentation of a conflict that is often only apparent but can always be resolved
- Contrast between appearance and reality or hoped for and achieved
- Playing with expectations and the non-fulfillment of these expectations
- Deceptions and Entanglements
- Happy ending (happy ending)
history
- - no clear genus
- - Insight into history
- - Feature-> episodic structure
- -> Historical ind ividual scenes are historically brought to the stage
Diffrence between history & comedy
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was_ihr_wollt- Insight into history
- https://www.getabstract.com/de/zusammenfassung/was-ihr-wollt/14189
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night#Performance_history
- https://www.getabstract.com/de/zusammenfassung/koenig-richard-ii/22514?st=RELATED&si=14189
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historie#Shakespeares_Historien-Dramen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play)#/media/File:The_Entry_of_Richard_and_Bolingbroke_into_London_(from_William_Shakespeare's_'Richard_II',_Act_V,_Scene_2)_James_Northcote_(1746–1831)_Royal_Albert_Memorial_Museum.jpg
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