William Shakespeare, often regarded as the world’s greatest playwright, contributed to the Renaissance spirit by expressing humanist ideals in his setting, diction and characters.
Hamlet- Passages on the nobility of a human being and the infinity of human faculties
Henry VIII, Macbeth, and Measure for Measure
-Passages on the dark side of life
-How man is great but there is always dark in the light of consciousness and knowledge
- “That age, ache, penury and imprisonment/ Can lay on nature is a paradise/ to what we fear of death” (M for M)
As You Like It
-Passage on the roles that each man plays in his life
-From infant to educated man a person goes through several stages of his life, gradually increasing his knowledge and responsibility
-Men learn from experiences in life and stages of life
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, The Two Gentleman of Verona, and The Two Gentleman of Verona
- Love oftentimes is able to conquer man’s wisdom
o “For to be wise and love/ Exceeds man’s might” (T and C)
- Appreciation of women for their looks as well as etiquette, manner, and fashion
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