Sforza Oddi and the commedia grave: setting the stage for Shakespeare

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The plays of Sforza Oddi exemplify the themes and conventions of the commedia grave and William Shakespeare may have been familiar with his work. This type of comedy seems to have been developed as an urban counterpoint to commedia pastorale. The psychological complexity, mixtures of the noble and the comic and strong female characters make Oddi's work like a forerunner of Shakespeare and of his younger contemporaries.

16th century AD, Italian literature, Oddi, Sforza

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Humoral psychology in Shakespeare's 'Henriad.'

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William Shakespeare wrote his 'Henriad' during the period of his most salient humoralism. The central humoral issues are whether Henry's blood is hopelessly distempered and impure and whether Hal's blood can bring the anarchic temperaments together and make an Eden of England. Humoralism provides a comprehensive scheme of psychic possibility for understanding the characters in Shakespeare's mature tragedies.

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Epiphanal encounters in Shakespearean dramaturgy

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Several of William Shakespeare's tragedies depended on epiphany, a moment that specifically evokes an event in or teaching of Jesus Christ. Shakespearean epiphany is unique in its disclosure of the miraculous nature of human life, its experience by heroic or saintly characters, and its cause from the supernatural latent in human nature or the physical world.

Portrayals, Jesus Christ

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