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Final answer:
This response answers a series of questions on Elizabethan theatre, including the Elizabethan era, the emergence of new drama genres, and specific dramatic techniques used by playwrights like Shakespeare.
Explanation:
- The British historical time known as the Elizabethan era was when playwrights could diversify their subject matter.
- Two new drama genres that emerged from 1558–1603 were tragicomedy and romance.
- During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, men mainly played the parts of women.
- A dramatic convention when a character overhears important information about the plot and informs the audience is called an aside.
- A dramatic convention whereby one character speaks to the audience (on the side) to reveal important information that other characters do not know is called an aside.
- A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters onstage is called a soliloquy.
- Playwrights in the Elizabethan era often alluded to classical mythology as well as Christian texts.
- How does an aside, eavesdropping, or the use of a soliloquy cause dramatic irony? The audience becomes more informed than some characters in the play.
- Elizabethan playwrights make allusions. An allusion is borrowing ideas from well-known works.
- Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom.
- Hercules is the half-god, half-human superhero in Greek mythology.
- In the historical play Richard II by Shakespeare, the place that is both called the seat of Mars and also Eden is Great Britain.
- In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, Iago speaks to the audience in a soliloquy, telling the audience of his motivations and plans to ruin Othello’s marriage.
- Iago has suspicions about Othello and his lieutenant, which is one of the reasons he wants to ruin Othello.
