How have considerations of Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries informed our early thinking of Shakespeare's 'Othello'? by Jane Barrowcliff https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz Develop your thinking with a particular focus on women and attitudes towards them; race, culture and religion; the significance of Venice and Cyprus en-us 2017-09-18 02:09:20 UTC 2020-09-28 21:38:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Sir Thomas Elyot, 1531 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188331322 "The good nature of a woman is to be mild, timorous, tractable, benign, of sure remembrance and shamefast."]]> 2017-09-18 06:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188331322 John Knox, 1558 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188331874 Experience hath declared them (women) to be unconstant, variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment.]]> 2017-09-18 06:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188331874 Thomas Coryat, 1611 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334035 Women are the most capable of sin. ]]> 2017-09-18 06:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334035 William Davies, 1614 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334345 Women are perceived as "lewd and wicked ... pay[ing] monthly unto the Pope for the sinful use of their wicked bodies."]]> 2017-09-18 06:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334345 Robert Burton, 1616 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334452 Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husbands to their husbands but to old men most treacherous. 

]]> 2017-09-18 06:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188334452 Cornelius a Lapide, 1638 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188336897 "...the authority of man extends not only to inanimate things and brute beasts, but also to reasonable creatures, that is, women and wives."]]> 2017-09-18 06:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188336897 Foreign plays https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188337074 The British wanted to see plays about foreign lands because they could not travel. These plays presented the audience the opportunity to feel like they've traveled to a foreign country.]]> 2017-09-18 06:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/188337074 Croft Study Center https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139189 The invasion of Cyprus by the Ottomans, which led to a war between Venice and the Ottomans. Cyprus was significant for trade since controlling it meant controlling the trade through its waters.]]> 2017-09-20 01:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139189 Fintan O'Toole https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139634 "Setting a play in Venice Shakespeare's time was like setting one on Wall Street now."
"Venice is also a byword for exotic vices and unbridled passion, a part of the Italian vogue..."
Venice was "a racial and religious melting pot".]]> 2017-09-20 01:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139634 Julius Briggs, (1983, 1997) https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139749 Women's equality was a subject of debate not only in the twentieth century, but also in the Renaissance - regarding their equality from both moral intellectual aspects]]> 2017-09-20 01:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/189139749 Cyprus https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/pk6p7qj14uz/wish/190004782 Cyprus was a Venetian outpost attacked and conquered by Turks (1570-71). 
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