PSYPACT- Practicing Over State Lines May 2024.pptx
Peter Brown Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance
1. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
Prologue – gli Ambasciatori
• … fussimo ben veduti e onorati …né
tardò molto che comparve la
serenissima Regina, e … disse la
Maestà Sua medesima in lingua nostra:
• “...Certo, signori, si deve tener conto de’
principi, e non solo di quelli, ma anco
delle cose che dicono…”
Zuanne Falier, M’A et Z Mocenigi, Alvise Foscari,
Amb.tori
2. Shakespeare in 1599
from Rinascimento to Renaissance?
400th
Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death, 2016
Peter Brown
Founder Chair, Eaquals
Eaquals, Florence, 19th
November 2016
3. Shakespeare and the CEFR
The role of cultural Mediation
400th
Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death, 2016
Peter Brown
Founder Chair, Eaquals
Eaquals, Florence, 19th
November 2016
4. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
“..On September 21st after lunch, about two
o'clock, I and my party crossed the water, and
there in the house with the thatched roof
witnessed an excellent performance of the
tragedy of the first Emperor Julius Caesar with a
cast of some fifteen people; when the play was
over, they danced very marvellously and
gracefully together as is their wont, two dressed
as men and two as women...”
21st
September 1599 – an eyewitness account :
5. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
21st
September 1599 – an eyewitness account :
6. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• The “the house with the thatched roof”, the
Globe, constructed
• Shakespeare is 35
• Henry V – completed
• Julius Caesar – written and performed
• As You Like It – written and performed
• Hamlet – first drafted
• The East India Company founded in London
London, 1599 – abstract chronicles of our time :
7. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• Lorenzo il Magnifico dies
• Jews expelled from Spain
• Inquisition
• Columbus and America
• The competitive Renaissance at its peak
• But takes 100 years to cross the Channel
1492 – the shaping of an Age :
39. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• The great enquiry - the nature of Nature
itself – of the physical world, of the inner
world of human nature
• Response to a corrupt system
• Retreat to an older, idyllic, Utopian world
• The dangers of appealing to the mob
• Is it morally acceptable to kill a tyrant?
• The dangers of dictatorship
1599 – Julius Caesar, As You Like It Hamlet
40. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• Probably the second play performed at
the new Globe, immediately after Julius
Caesar
• A boy actor playing a woman: Rosalind
– Rosalind pretending to be a man: Ganymede
– Ganymede pretending to be a woman...
1599 – As You Like It
42. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
Petrarch: abba abba cde cde
Shakespeare: abab cdcd efef gg
43. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• Nor rhyme nor reason
• Forever and a day
• Time travels at different speeds for different people. I
can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it
gallops for, and who it stops cold for. R to O
• J: Rosalind is your love's name?
O: Yes, just.
J: I do not like her name.
O: There was no thought of pleasing you when she
was christened
• I do desire we may be better strangers. Orlando to J
1599 – As You Like It
47. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely
players;
48. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
They have their exits and their
entrances,
And one man in his time plays many
parts,
His acts being seven ages.
49. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's
arms.
50. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
Then the whining schoolboy, with his
satchel
And shining morning face, creeping
like snail
Unwillingly to school.
51. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful
ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.
52. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded
like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick
in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the canon's mouth.
53. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon
lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal
cut,
Full of wise saws and modern
instances;
And so he plays his part.
54. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too
wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly
voice,
Turning again toward childish treble,
Pipes and whistles in his sound.
55. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
As You Like It, II.7. 139-167
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful
history,
Is second childishness and mere
oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,
sans everything.
57. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
“..not of an Age,
but for all Time..”
Introduction to the First Folio
by Ben Jonson
Published 1623
58. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• “The historian speaks of what has
happened, the poet of what can
happen” Aristotle – Poetics
• “The true discoverer or Explorer is not
he who discovers new lands, but he
who sees the world with new eyes”
attributed to Columbus
Epilogue – i Maestri
60. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
Antony – Julius Caesar (1599), Act V,
Scene v, spoke of the defeated Brutus:
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might
stand up
And say to all the world 'This was a
man!‘
Epilogue – il Maestro
61. The British School FVG – Trieste
Via Torrebianca, 18
Trieste – Italy
Thank you!
++39 040 369.369
Peter.Brown@British-FVG.net
70. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
The British School FVG – Trieste
Via Torrebianca, 18
Trieste – Italy
Thank you!
++39 040 369.369
Peter.Brown@British-FVG.net
71. British School FVG: Trieste - Italy
• 1498 – the last supper
• 1541 – the last judgment
• 1504 – David
• 1514 Titian | Tiziano Sacred & Profane
