Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.
What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare's work address?
william shakespeare
William Shakespeare affected the Renaissance in several ways. The Renaissance is a period of rebirth in science, art, and literature. By writing many plays, Shakespeare contributed to most of the rebirth of literature. Plays by Shakespeare are extremely well known, even today, and assist historians in discovery of the past. He wrote many plays and poems, such as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer's Dream.
Realism (Humanism)
Shakespeare did his work in London to keep William Shakespeare alive.
he went from the religious renaissance values to the humanist medieval values
He dies :)
Shakespeare did not write a work called "The Banquet".
People started noticing Shakespeare's work in about 1592 or so.
Two secular writers of the Renaissance were Niccolò Machiavelli, known for his political treatise "The Prince," and Michel de Montaigne, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre with his work "Essays."
globe theatre
William Shakespeare first worked in Lord Chamberlain Men later called King Men