william shakespeare?

Question

Can anyone name 2 shakespeare plays that had a renaissance connection. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

William Shakespere is the renaissence in England, our great leap was in Litrature and music.

However, the theme of the renaissence was the re-birth of rome, so the classical set stories like a Midsommers Night Dream, are obvious.

The Tempest, is also about a figure of learning, Prospero, which is another renaissence theme.

A Midsommer nights dreame, - romantic comedy - written sometime in the mid-1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit it. Today, the play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed across the world.

There is no known source for the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream, although individual elements can be traced to classical literature; for example, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the transformation of Bottom into an *** is descended from Apuleius' The Golden ***; Shakespeare would have studied both texts at school. In addition, Shakespeare could have been working on Romeo and Juliet at about the same time that he wrote the Dream, and it is possible to see Pyramus and Thisbe as a comic reworking of the tragic play. A further, frequently ignored source is The Knight's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[

The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of Hamlet. It was published in quarto in two separate editions, both in 1609. It is not known whether the play was ever performed in its own time, The play is set during the Trojan War, and essentially has two plots. In one Troilus, a Trojan prince, woos Cressida, has sex with her, and professes undying love just before she is traded with the Greeks for a prisoner of war. Trying to visit her in the Greek camp, he sees her with Diomedes, and decides she is a whore.

Despite being the titular story, this plot takes up very few scenes: most of the play revolves around a scheme by Nestor and Ulysses to get the proud Achilles back into battle to fight for the Greeks.

The play ends with a series of battle skirmishes between the two sides, and the death of the Trojan hero Hector.

Answer 2

Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet.