The influence of renaissance on shakespear's imagination
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It’s very easy to think of Shakespeare as a one-off genius with a unique perspective on the world around him. However, Shakespeare was very much a product of the huge cultural shifts that were occurring in Elizabethan England during his lifetime.
He was working in the theater at the height of the Renaissance movement, something that is reflected in Shakespeare’s plays.
The Renaissance in Shakespeare's Time
Broadly speaking, the Renaissance movement is used to describe how Europeans moved away from the restrictive ideas of the Middle Ages. The ideology that dominated the Middle Ages was heavily focused on the absolute power of God and was enforced by the formidable Roman Catholic Church.
From the 14th century onward, people started to break away from this idea. The Renaissance movement did not necessarily reject the idea of God but rather questioned humankind’s relationship to God—an idea that caused an unprecedented upheaval in the accepted social hierarchy. In fact, Shakespeare himself may have been Catholic.
This focus on humanity created a new-found freedom for artists, writers, and philosophers to be inquisitive about the world around them.
He was working in the theater at the height of the Renaissance movement, something that is reflected in Shakespeare’s plays.
The Renaissance in Shakespeare's Time
Broadly speaking, the Renaissance movement is used to describe how Europeans moved away from the restrictive ideas of the Middle Ages. The ideology that dominated the Middle Ages was heavily focused on the absolute power of God and was enforced by the formidable Roman Catholic Church.
From the 14th century onward, people started to break away from this idea. The Renaissance movement did not necessarily reject the idea of God but rather questioned humankind’s relationship to God—an idea that caused an unprecedented upheaval in the accepted social hierarchy. In fact, Shakespeare himself may have been Catholic.
This focus on humanity created a new-found freedom for artists, writers, and philosophers to be inquisitive about the world around them.
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