Jacobean Beliefs
The Tempest Context
21st Century Beliefs
Hag-Seed Context
100

Human kind have the capacity to make choices.

What is humanism?

100

Period in British history that reflected desire for exploration and learning.

What is the Age of Discovery.

100
Priviledging the autonomy and capacity of women.

What is 'feminism'?

100

The independence of many previously colonised nations and the questions that were raised as a result

What is 'Post-Colonialism'?

200

Priviledging the fragility and innocence of women

What is the Patriarchy?

200

This 1609 event involving the ship Sea Venture is believed to have inspired elements of 'The Tempest'.

What is a shipwreck?

200

Valuing of personal rights and experiences. 

What is 'individualism'?

200

This 1833 Act of Parliament led to the freedom of peoples throughout most of the British Empire.

What is the Slavery Abolition Act?

300

A political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.

What is the Divine Right of Kings?

300

As a consequence of exploration, the growing contemporary European attitudes towards indigenous peoples encountered in the New World.

What is ' facination with the other'?

300

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'?

300

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'?

400

Stability and strict social order, which is constantly under threat.

What is the Chain of Being?

400

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?

400
Recognising that all people, no matter their race, religion, socio-economic or cultural heretage, deserve basic human rights and to have equal access to  services and needs.

What is an 'egalitarian' society?

400

Protests against the closing of 'prison farms' resulting in investigation into the mental, physical and moral purposes of incaceration.

What is Canadian prison reform?

500

Someone who devotes himself to the pursuit of wisdom under Christian humanism.

Renaissance Magus
500

A piece of writing that speculated on nature of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas

What is Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals'

500

People's moral compass is shaped by their personal experiences and is different to others around them

What is Moral Relativism?

500

Exploring the inner workings of people's minds (human pysche) inspired by a famous German pyschologist

What is Freudian theory?

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