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( Some Elements of Drama )

( Hamlet, Act V )

( Hamlet, Act IV )

( Hamlet, Act III )

( Hamlet, Act II )

( Hamlet, Act I )

Last update: 16 August 2009

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Sorry about the image quality; I did them in rather a hurry. Hopefully they're legible.

Remember that the War of the Roses was fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Richard III is in the House of York; his older brother is King when the play opens. All of the males in the House of Lancaster are dead when the play opens; from Table I, only Margaret and Anne (wives) and Henry VII appear as characters in the play.

Table I: The Sons of Edward III, including the House of Lancaster (yellow)
and the line that, with Henry VII, became the House of Tudor (blue - Elizabeth I was a Tudor, but she comes later) (Edward III's children are numbered unless their names are important for our purposes.)








Table II: The House of York, descended from Son #5 in Table I





Things to remember:

1. The play is Shakespeare's interpretation of historical events.

2. Elizabeth I, Queen of England when Shakespeare wrote the play, does not appear in Table I or II. Those are different Elizabeths. All of them. (Elizabeth I is the granddaughter of Henry VII, who appears in both tables.)

3. Yes, it's the same Anne.

4. Margaret of Anjou was exiled to France and was not in England at the time of the events covered in the play. Shakespeare imported her for dramatic purposes. You'll need to think about what those are.

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Shakespeare's Globe

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Medieval Pageant Wagons


(from Sharp, A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Myseries...at Coventry... (1825),
in Brockett, History of the Theatre 8th edition, 99)



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Gothic Architecture (Liturgical)


(Howarth, Eva. Architecture. [73])

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This entry is mostly pictures so you can see what we were talking about in Tuesday's lecture. This is Medieval Romanesque liturgical (church) architecture, provided for comparison to the later Gothic architecture. Pay close attention to the shape of the church (best seen in the architectural plan for the Byzantine Church) and how architectural design supports the dominant cultural metaphor or purpose for the building - this is a feature of most of Western architecture pre-1600 (and much of it post-1600).

The style is called Romanesque for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it is based on the Roman arch. This is a Medieval style and not a Roman one; do remember that...

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~Roman Theatre Architecture~


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