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  2. English Renaissance theatre - Wikipedia

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    The term English Renaissance theatre encompasses the period between 1562—following a performance of Gorboduc, the first English play using blank verse, at the Inner Temple during the Christmas season of 1561—and the ban on theatrical plays enacted by the English Parliament in 1642. In a strict sense "Elizabethan" only refers to the period ...

  3. English Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. As in most of the rest of Northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until ...

  4. The Changeling (play) - Wikipedia

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    Genre. tragedy. Setting. 17th century: Alicante and a madhouse nearby. The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Widely regarded as being among the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, the play has accumulated a large amount of critical commentary.

  5. Category:English Renaissance plays - Wikipedia

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    The Damoiselle. The Deserving Favourite. The Devil's Charter. The Devil's Law Case. Dick of Devonshire. Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) The Disobedient Child. Doctor Faustus (play) The Double Marriage.

  6. Tragedy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Tragedy (from the Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia [a]) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. [2] Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain [that] awakens pleasure,” for the audience.

  7. Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The architectural perspective and new systems of banking and accounting were introduced during the time. The Renaissance ( UK: / rəˈneɪsəns / rən-AY-sənss, US: / ˈrɛnəsɑːns / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) [1] [2] [a] is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the ...

  8. Theatre of Italy - Wikipedia

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    An example of transformation into a dialogic drama is a result of Donna de Paradiso by Jacopone da Todi, where the dialogue between John the Baptist, the Mary and Jesus is articulated on a religious topic: in it there is a fine linguistic and lexical intervention (the subdued language of the Mary and Christ compared to that of the John the ...

  9. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world.