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    The Elizabethan drama was a union of medieval theatre traditions and Renaissance influences, bringing together the idea of plays as animated sermons depicting realistic scenes that mixed tragedy and comedy within a ordered universe, combined with classical works promoted during the Renaissance such as Italian commedia dell'arte, Machiavelli's work, and Seneca's five act structure. During the Elizabethan era, drama became a main art form despite performances being illegal in London, leading to the building of theaters in the suburbs where drama flourished as entertainment for the city.

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    The Elizabethan drama was a union of medieval theatre traditions and Renaissance influences, bringing together the idea of plays as animated sermons depicting realistic scenes that mixed tragedy and comedy within a ordered universe, combined with classical works promoted during the Renaissance such as Italian commedia dell'arte, Machiavelli's work, and Seneca's five act structure. During the Elizabethan era, drama became a main art form despite performances being illegal in London, leading to the building of theaters in the suburbs where drama flourished as entertainment for the city.

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    Elizabethean Theatre

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    The Elizabethan drama was a union of medieval theatre traditions and Renaissance influences, bringing together the idea of plays as animated sermons depicting realistic scenes that mixed tragedy and comedy within a ordered universe, combined with classical works promoted during the Renaissance such as Italian commedia dell'arte, Machiavelli's work, and Seneca's five act structure. During the Elizabethan era, drama became a main art form despite performances being illegal in London, leading to the building of theaters in the suburbs where drama flourished as entertainment for the city.

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    The Elizebathean drama is the union of the Medieval theatre and the Renaissence

    interests.
    The medieval influences are:
    - The idea that the play is an animated sermon
    - The scenes represent realistic commedies
    - The mix of tragedy and comedy
    - The idea of man’s place inside and ordered universe
    This medieval heritage was combined with the classical works promoted in the
    Renaissence, so the Elizabethean theatre inspirations are also:
    - The italian commedia dell’arte
    - The work of Niccolò Macchiavelli
    - The Latin poet Seneca in the divisions of the play into 5 acts (introduction,
    development, turning point, complications and resolving of the difficulties).
    In the Elizabethean age the drama became the main form of art; London was the
    city of entertainment,
    London was the city of entertainment even though public performances were
    illegal in the city, so theaters were built in the suburbs

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