Context Flashcards
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General BG
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- Written and perfomed in 1611, Jacobean period
- His last play - perhaps reflecting on age and the prospect of his artistic and physical powers diminishing
- Commenting/Reflecting on events of the time, in celebration of the marriage of the kings daughter Elizabeth
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Colonisation
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Writing at a time when European explorers continues - attempts to sail around the globe and discover ‘new’ places
- Some believed it was their christian duty to convert the ‘savage population’
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Utopia
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- Thomas More’s Utopia was published in the 16thc and described an idealised society existing on an island.
- Likely inspired Gonzalo’s character
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Supernatural
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- Shakespeare would have likely aimed to encourage the championing of supernatural ideals as King James I, a great supporter of his, was known to have valued and accepted ideas of marriage
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Feminism
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- Arranged marriage was common pracitce. James I married his own daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of Bohemia in 1613 to make a political alliance
