Monday, October 31

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Monday, October 31

• Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher
  Marlowe their world

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Great Chain of Being
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Steps
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Or seen another way
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!Similar to Dantes Divine Comedy
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Dantes Scheme Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
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Nine circles of Hell (Inferno)
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Bottom of Hell was ice around Devils anus
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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

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Annual processions around England
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Defeated great enemy Spain and the Spanish Armada
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1588 the tiny navy against the BIG POWER
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Some of the issues

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlNg5FJtUrIUfeature
  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?

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Sir Walter Ralegh

• Hes the one
• who put his
• cloak across
• the mud
• puddle for
• Elizabeth.

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Better portrait
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Christopher Marlowe

• Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love two scenes

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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)

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Tragedie of Dr. Faustus