Early Modern EnglandDRAMA OF THE ELIZABETHAN, JACOBEAN, AND CAROLINE ERAS

“Elizabethan”“I sometimes use the word ‘Elizabethan’ with great laxity, meaning anything between the ages of Henry VIII and Charles I akin to the main trends of Elizabethan thought.”

--E. M. W. TillyardThe Elizabethan World Picture

1.Henry VIII2.Edward VI3.Lady Jane Grey4.Mary I (& Phillip II)

5.Elizabeth I6.James VI/I7.Charles I

Henry VIII B. 1491 – D. 1547 R. 1509-1547

Eddie Izzard on the Church of England: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope-1Zb5t-k

Edward VI

B. 1537 – D. 1553 R. 1547 - 1553

Lady Jane Grey

B. 1536– D. 1553 R. 10 July, 1553 –

19 July 1553

Mary I

B. 1516 – D. 1558 R. 1553-1558 (also Phillip)

Elizabeth I B.1533 – D. 1603 R. 1558-1603

James VI and I

B. 1566 – D. 1625 R. 1567/1603 - 1624

Charles I

B. 1600 – D. 1649 R. 1625 – 1649 English Civil War:

1642-1645

Roundheads vs. Cavaliers

Oliver Cromwell & The Commonwealth

Oliver Cromwell: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0172URVAM?ref_=aiv_dp_season_select

The Great Chain of Being

God Angels Royalty Commoners Animals Plants Nonliving things

Humorism Star Trek IV: https://www.youtube.com

/watch?v=MM

aGnpVaSGQ

Early Tudor Drama

Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall

Gammer Gurton’s Needle by Mr. S

Gorboduc or Ferrex & Porrex by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

The University WitsThomas Kyd John LylyThe Spanish Tragedy Campaspe, Endimion,

and Love’s Metamorphosis

Robert Green Christopher MarloweFriar bacon and Friar Bungay, and Tamburlaine the Great (pts. 1 & 2), Doctor James IV Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II

Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humor Volpone Epicoene The Alchemist Bartholomew Fair

John Webster The Duchess of Malfi The White Devil

Globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV54axNsw8&index=1&list=PL1NLFlCIMXIwjtumruEIRU6GxtsJe8Ktz Globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoIP7Ftz5BI

Inigo Jones

Court Plays&Masques

Court Plays: https://www.netflix.com/watch/18170373?trackId=14170286&tctx=1%2C0%2C3b5b8c3a-63bb-4056-8dc9-290f3cd0491f-133944609