The Tempest - Context 2

1. Open air Globe
2. Indoor Blackfriars
   1. Probably written for this playhouse
      1. Reason why play = innovative
3. Court
   1. Play = successful
      1. Performed a second time at court at wedding of James' daughter
4. Heterogeneous Audiences

1. The Reformation

1. Miranda silent during marriage
2. For Protestants, marriage was essential for a healthy society

Nota:

• Irony of Queen Elizabeth's position

1. Many in society believed in magic, hell, etc

1. 'knowledge is power'

1. 'The world seemed a far larger place to men of the Elizabethan age than it had to earlier generations, New kingdoms had been discovered in America, and the distant Orient had become more accessible.'

   Nota:

   • Orient - Faustus  'Orient Pearl'