What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare's work address?
Shakespeare was not known for his ideas. He was known for his plays, which were indeed immediately popular.
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It is said that Shakespeare used the writings of Plutarch for ideas for his ancient history plays.
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What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare's work address?
Shakespeare was not known for his ideas. He was known for his plays, which were indeed immediately popular.
somewhere
He got most of his ideas from books he had read.
From the things and people around him.
It is said that Shakespeare used the writings of Plutarch for ideas for his ancient history plays.
Shakespeare often got ideas from history or he adapted already-written plays.
We have no record of Shakespeare's early life, and any ideas about what experiences he had and whether they formed his character are complete guesswork.
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Ovid Holinshed Plutarch
He got his ideas almost exclusively from books he had read and other plays he had seen. Very few of his plays are inspired by his his own experiences.
He didn't, really. Some highly pretentious authors, like Harold Bloom, have claimed that he did, but what Bloom is claiming is that Shakespeare invented Victorian literary criticism, which is not only ridiculous but impossible. With Shakespeare, people take their own ideas to the plays and find them reflected there and articulated better than they could articulate them themselves. Shakespeare, in his own words, "holds the mirror up to nature" but he does not create nature. He did not create Harold Bloom's Victorian outlook on literature, but when Bloom looks at Shakespeare, he finds his outlook reflected back to him, and imagines that Shakespeare must have invented it.