Science and the English Language BRITAIN AND EUROPE: IN LESS THAN A CENTURY (HENRY THE 8° BECAME KING IN 1509), A POOR, BACKWARD COUNTRY BECAME A LEADING POWER. THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND A CENTRALIZED STATE

Science and the English Language Shakespeare’s The Tempest reflects this new reality in at least two ways: for the technology it involves and because one of its main themes is colonialism and the discovery of new lands.

Science and the English Language The theatre in those days was profit driven as much as printing: it had patrons and sponsors but most of all it relied on people buying tickets. And people – Londoners – loved the theatre in a way that we find difficult to visualize: in the 1660s, for instance, Pepys could go to theatre every day, and sometimes twice a day, and so could his friends.

Science and the English Language THE GLOBE

Science and the English Language The Elizabethan theatre was different from today elegant hall: the stage was rather in the centre, people were eating, drinking…and rioting. Like today in a rock concert or a football match, we had the theatre (meaning what was being performed on stage) and a second theatre – the performance given by the audience.

Science and the English Language Elizabethan theatres normally performed six different plays in their six day week. In a typical season Henslowe’s Company performed thirty-eight different plays, twenty-one of which were entirely new and seventeen of which had been performed in previous years.

Science and the English Language THE TEMPEST

Science and the English Language