Monday, October 31 Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher Marlowe – their world
Great Chain of Being
Steps
Or seen another way
!Similar to Dante’s Divine Comedy
Dante’s Scheme: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
Nine circles of Hell ( Inferno )
Bottom of Hell was ice around Devil’s anus
Elizabeth I (Diana, Virginia, etc.) Set up a system of courtly love within her court Spoke as England, for England, considered herself to be England
Annual processions around England
Defeated great enemy Spain and the Spanish Armada
1588 – the tiny navy against the BIG POWER
Some of the issues ure=related Could her independence have been claimed if Elizabeth had been married to a prince of Spain (as her sister Bloody Mary was)? Could she have asserted English independence so strongly if she had been subservient to a husband/ even a King?
Sir Walter Ralegh He’s the one who put his cloak across the mud puddle for Elizabeth.
Better portrait
Christopher Marlowe Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love: two scenes
Pastoral poetry "Pastoral" (from pastor, Latin for "shepherd") refers to a literary work dealing with shepherds and rustic life. Pastoral poetry is highly conventionalized; it presents an idealized rather than realistic view of rustic life. The affectation of rustic life in pastoral poetry is a purely artistic device; it creates a distancing effect which allows the poet to step back from and critique society. The artificiality of pastoral poetry is most explicit in the courtly language and dress of the "shepherds," which better fit the drawing rooms of polite society than the hills, swamps and sheepfolds of real rustic life. (From Dr. Debora Schwartz at Cal Poly but I doubt this is original with her)
Tragedie of Dr. Faustus