1. The Language Of Love

2. The language of love Poetry and the language of love; Shakespeare
Renaissance and today.

3. Poetry and the language of love
In the Renaissance poetry was mainly used to speak about love.
The language of poetry was court love poetry.
The language of love cover:
- sonnet;
- tragedies;
- lyric poetry.

4. Shakespeare Shakespear production consists of poetry and drama.
He very rappresents the sirit of the Renaissance

5. His important plays and tragedies are: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth.

6. Shakespeare needed to find models to wrote
Shakespeare needed to find models to wrote. He had to look back to Middle Ages.
He riadopted what already existed.

7. Shakespeare told stories that people already knew and told them with a Renaissance atmmophere, with characters’ body and feelings.

8. The most frequently use of language in the Middle Ages was for religion porpuse
The body was considered as a “tabu” and religion was at the centre of world’s vision.

9. Shakespeare looked back also to Classical models (Greek and Latin); bacause in the Classical period the ody was considered important as the soul.

10. Renaissance and today
The first important difference between today and the Renaissance is that the cortein was a main function.
In different times there were a different way to cortein.