peter brown shakespeare and the italian renaissance
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Prologue – gli Ambasciatori
• … fussimo ben veduti e onorati …né tardò molto che comparve la serenissima Regina, e … disse la Maestà Sua medesima in lingua nostra:
• “...Certo, signori, si deve tener conto de’ principi, e non solo di quelli, ma anco delle cose che dicono…”
Zuanne Falier, M’A et Z Mocenigi, Alvise Foscari, Amb.tori
Shakespeare in 1599from Rinascimento to Renaissance?400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death, 2016
Peter BrownFounder Chair, Eaquals
Eaquals, Florence, 19th November 2016
Shakespeare and the CEFRThe role of cultural Mediation
400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death, 2016
Peter BrownFounder Chair, Eaquals
Eaquals, Florence, 19th November 2016
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“..On September 21st after lunch, about two o'clock, I and my party crossed the water, and there in the house with the thatched roof witnessed an excellent performance of the tragedy of the first Emperor Julius Caesar with a cast of some fifteen people; when the play was over, they danced very marvellously and gracefully together as is their wont, two dressed as men and two as women...”
21st September 1599 – an eyewitness account :
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21st September 1599 – an eyewitness account :
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• The “the house with the thatched roof”, the Globe, constructed
• Shakespeare is 35• Henry V – completed• Julius Caesar – written and performed• As You Like It – written and performed• Hamlet – first drafted• The East India Company founded in London
London, 1599 – abstract chronicles of our time :
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• Lorenzo il Magnifico dies• Jews expelled from Spain• Inquisition• Columbus and America• The competitive Renaissance at its
peak• But takes 100 years to cross the
Channel
1492 – the shaping of an Age :
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1300 – 1305 Giotto
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Ibn Sīnā 980 – 1087 CE
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• Algebra• Arithmetic• Alchemy, chemistry• Algorithm• Adobe, admiral, albatross, alcohol,
alcove, alkali, apricot, arsenal, artichoke, assassin, aubergine, average, azimuth, azure ...
Arabic numerals e.g. 1599 – and etymologies
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Jan van Eyck 1434
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Cosimo 1389 - 1464
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Lorenzo 1449 - 1492
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London, 1599 – abstract chronicles of our time
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Brutus – not that I loved Caesar less,but that I loved Rome more. :
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• The great enquiry - the nature of Nature itself – of the physical world, of the inner world of human nature
• Response to a corrupt system• Retreat to an older, idyllic, Utopian
world• The dangers of appealing to the mob• Is it morally acceptable to kill a tyrant?• The dangers of dictatorship
1599 – Julius Caesar, As You Like It Hamlet
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• Probably the second play performed at the new Globe, immediately after Julius Caesar
• A boy actor playing a woman: Rosalind– Rosalind pretending to be a man:
Ganymede– Ganymede pretending to be a woman...
1599 – As You Like It
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Petrarch: abba abba cde cdeShakespeare: abab cdcd efef gg
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• Nor rhyme nor reason• Forever and a day• Time travels at different speeds for different
people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for. R to O
• J: Rosalind is your love's name?O: Yes, just.J: I do not like her name.O: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened
• I do desire we may be better strangers. Orlando to J
1599 – As You Like It
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National Theatre – Rosalind :
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2006 – Kenneth Branagh | Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind, David Oyelowo as Orlando
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely
players;
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's
arms.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful
balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167 Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded
like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the canon's mouth.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167 And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon
lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal
cut,Full of wise saws and modern
instances;And so he plays his part.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167 The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well saved, a world too
wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly
voice,Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in his sound.
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As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere
oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything.
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“..not of an Age,but for all Time..”Introduction to the First Folio
by Ben JonsonPublished 1623
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• “The historian speaks of what has happened, the poet of what can happen” Aristotle – Poetics
• “The true discoverer or Explorer is not he who discovers new lands, but he who sees the world with new eyes” attributed to Columbus
Epilogue – i Maestri
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Antony – Julius Caesar (1599), Act V, Scene v, spoke of the defeated Brutus:His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world 'This was a man!‘
Epilogue – il Maestro
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1890 – Ada Rehan as Rosalind :
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1890 – Lilly Langtree as Rosalind :
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2016 – set in World War I :
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“..not of an Age,but for all Time..”Introduction to the First Folio
by Ben JonsonPublished 1623
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Forensic reconstruction
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• 1498 – the last supper• 1541 – the last judgment• 1504 – David• 1514 Titian | Tiziano Sacred &
Profane
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