Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Tempest - Renaissance Attitudes
- Believed in magic
- Elizabethan Witchcraft Act
- Believed in hell and the devil
- Edward Alleyn
- Wore a cross under his costume;
audience thought they saw an extra
devil on stage
- Patriarchal society
- Women owned by father and then husband
- 'my rich gift'
- 'Worthily purchased, take my daughter'
- 'she is thine own'
- Protestant society
- Pope scene in Dr Faustus would have pleased the majority
Protestant audience - though would have offended any
Catholics
- Marriage
- Essential for health of Protestant society
- Great Chain of Being
- It details a strict, religious
hierarchical structure of all matter
and life, believed to have been
decreed by God.
Anmerkungen:
- The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon, kings, princes, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
- New world, discovery,
colonisation, conquest
- Attitudes to revenge
- 'wild justice'
- 'Vengeance is mine saith the Lord'
- And forgiveness
- Jesus says you should love your
enemies; you have to forgive a brother
who sins against you 70 x 7 times.