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Influences
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| Queen Elizabeth |
Many of Shakespeare's plays were written for
her and many of which appeared at her courts. |
| Theatre |
Theatre was popular with the people, the Queen
loved it and it was inexpensive to attend. |
| Poverty/Country Life |
Shakespeare came from a small village and grew
up with the peasants. Stratford was the base of his imagination. |
| Love for England |
His love for England was reflected in many of
his works. He wrote about a country life, just like that of Stratford and
England. |
| Shakespeare's own age |
Tried to be part of and sympathize with poems. |
| Patriotic |
Never wrote anything against his country. |
| Bible |
Part of his youth and his times in Stratford
and included it in his works. |
| Catholic Revolt |
The revolt caused him to "hold back" in some
of his works. |
| Latin Text |
The imagination was based on Latin books he read
as a child. |
| Ovid's Metamorphoses |
The believe inspired him to write " The Rape
of Lucerne, from the Fasti." |
| Greene |
Allowed Shakespeare to be part of his plays and
Shakespeare began to change his plays. |
| People of the town |
Taught Shakespeare a lot because they were the
most influential people of the town and his father was part of the upper
class. He attended a private school. The people taught about the
real world. |
| Ancient
Writers |
Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Liras, Virgil, Horace,
Ovid, and Senca -- Shakespeare used many of these writers' works as a basis
for some of his own works. |