Jacobean Beliefs
Human kind have the capacity to make choices.
What is humanism?
Period in British history that reflected desire for exploration and learning.
What is the Age of Discovery.
What is 'feminism'?
The independence of many previously colonised nations and the questions that were raised as a result
What is 'Post-Colonialism'?
Priviledging the fragility and innocence of women
What is the Patriarchy?
This 1609 event involving the ship Sea Venture is believed to have inspired elements of 'The Tempest'.
What is a shipwreck?
Valuing of personal rights and experiences.
What is 'individualism'?
This 1833 Act of Parliament led to the freedom of peoples throughout most of the British Empire.
What is the Slavery Abolition Act?
A political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
As a consequence of exploration, the growing contemporary European attitudes towards indigenous peoples encountered in the New World.
What is ' facination with the other'?
A skeptical interpretation of metanarrative, culture, history, and art, often questioning the idea of universal truths and embracing irony and playfulness.
What is 'Post-Modernism'?
This collection of works encourages the audiences to never lose sight of Shakespeare's works and make sure that they recognise elements of his plays in their own worlds.
What is 'Hogarth Collection'?
Stability and strict social order, which is constantly under threat.
What is the Chain of Being?
This term describes a play within a play, a device used by Prospero to orchestrate events and reveal truths in 'The Tempest'.
What is Metatheatre?
What is an 'egalitarian' society?
Protests against the closing of 'prison farms' resulting in investigation into the mental, physical and moral purposes of incaceration.
What is Canadian prison reform?
Someone who devotes himself to the pursuit of wisdom under Christian humanism.
A piece of writing that speculated on nature of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas
What is Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals'
People's moral compass is shaped by their personal experiences and is different to others around them
What is Moral Relativism?
Exploring the inner workings of people's minds (human pysche) inspired by a famous German pyschologist
What is Freudian theory?