Inglese

The character of Richard is modelled on Vice of the Morality Plays and on the Senecan criminal hero.
According to Shakespeare, rhetoric is the maker of history: people who can make a real speech are the winners. Even Richard uses rhetoric to delineate his own character and to persuade and dominate others.
This tragedy can still be considered a S

Somebody discovered they could mix tin and copper, so the tools became harder. Then the knowledge spread and the people learnt about it.
700-600 b.C. The Celts arrived from north west Germany.
It was a population we could find in Europe for several century.
They were taller, bigger and fairer than the Iberians.
They were able to

Obviously the Pope refused the request.
So Henry VIII decided to break with Rome. He declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, in 1534. Then he decided to seize the monasteries wealth.
At that time his chancellor was Sir Thomas More, his friend and a good catholic.
Thomas More was against the divorce and did not accept the break with Rom

Were made trade agreements with:
- Flanders
- Denmark
- Scotland
- Spain
With Scotland and Spain an understanding was achieved by dynastic marriages.
He founded English naval power, spending money on the building of ships.
So England could have its own merchant fleet. This increased its military strength.

When he di

After the struggle the two friends had to fall out with each other (rompere i rapporti), This because Henry the II Thought that he could have one system law for all the country. But the Church did not agree. Then, the archbishop of Canterbury (the chief of the Church) died. So Henry the II thought that he could put at the head of the English Church his

When we talk about a history play we mean a story about the medieval English history.
Richard III was the last of the Plantagenets and he fought against Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.
Digression about the critics:
Dating the Shakespeare’s plays is not easy, because few of necessary records survive.
Therefore the works must be dated combi

In that period started English poetry of Jonson, Spencer and Sydney, and also Shakespeare wrote some poems.
Elisabeth’s politics:
She divided it in internal affairs and in foreign affairs.
The most important problem to solve was the religious question. The queen tried to take a middle course. She was a Protestant.
We have to remember two

There was just a kind of artisan: the smith (fabbro), which used only the barter (baratto).
The Anglo – Saxons established 7 kingdoms: East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex. By the middle of the 7th century Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex were the most powerful kingdoms.
In this period the Christianisation of the countr

When James I became king, to escape the persecution, Puritans left England. They decided to go to America. On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims left the English port of Plymouth and headed the America. The Pilgrims’ ship was the Mayflower. On November 9 it reached Cape Cod. But the Pilgrims did not have enough food and water and many were sick.
They

Satan is taken to be one of the most attractive characters of Paradise Lost. At the start, he is an epic hero, the incarnation of beauty fallen from grace and of great courage. But, later, the figure of Satan becomes less evident and, from being a great leader, he becomes a vile creature, the essence of evil.
A comparison between Milton and Dante co