Elizabethan+and+Jacobean+Drama

=Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy=

In class we are looking at TRAGEDY, specifically, ENGLISH tragedy as experienced by audiences in the theatres of Britain during the time of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Johnson. //The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus// by Christopher Marlowe

Your MSIP task is to research and report back via this wikispace discussion on ANY TOPIC that is of interest to you concerning the life of people, actors, theatre patrons, nobility, etc in Britain during the reign of Elizabeth I or James VI. You might want to include links to images, or attach any documents you write.

This activity will attach to the Ministry Overall Outcome below, and be evaluated as Application (transfer research skills into language for your classmates on this wiki discussion space) and Thinking (infer and interpret the results of your research to respond to the overall question: How did culture affect the content in the theatre of the time?

   B2. Drama and Society:

demonstrate an understanding of how societies present and past use or have used drama, and of how creating and viewing drama can benefit individuals, groups, and communities;