
Contrived Coincidence: The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare. The Chessmaster (using actual chess motifs): Iago in Othello. Cargo Envy: In a famous line from Romeo and Juliet, Romeo sees Juliet resting her head on her hand, and wishes he was a glove on that hand. Bromantic Foil: Mercutio of Romeo and Juliet. Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Polonius's list of genres in Hamlet. Bluffing the Murderer: The play within the play in Hamlet. The Bluebeard: European literary folktale by Charles Perrault, 1697. The Tempest plays it straight, putting essentially the entire plot down to Prospero's magical machinations. A Wizard Did It: Don Quixote pokes fun at other works that use the trope in that the title character always ascribes things going sideways to "some cursed enchanter". Aside Comment: Shakespeare and contemporaries. Anti-Hero: Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. All That Glitters: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which implies that it was already an old aesop. All Part of the Show: 17th-century urban legend. Adaptation Displacement: Some of Shakespeare's plays, such as Romeo and Juliet, displaced older versions of the same stories. Tropes that originated in this time period: The plays of Tāng Xiǎnzǔ (see The Peony Pavilion). The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope's great mock-heroic epic satire of the most infamous haircut of English literature. Journey to the West, the great Chinese epic. The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte farces, establishing many comedy-related tropes we enjoy to this day. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and other authors of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama. Notable works and authors from this time period include: Not Heron's first century toy, and not the store. Please note, that when we say "steam engine" we mean useful steam engine. Much more survives from this period than from earlier. The arrival of movable type printing in Europe made books plentiful, and helped standardize the languages that used it. This page needs some cleaning up to be presentable.įrom printing to the steam engine (1439-1698). PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.
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