How did Shakespeare use Elizabethan drama to create his own world?

Question:I need to write a paper on this topic but i'm having trouble finding how he used Elizabethan drama, help??

and im supposed to have quotes to support my answer so if you have a link to a site that would be great.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I need to write a paper on this topic but i'm having trouble finding how he used Elizabethan drama, help??

and im supposed to have quotes to support my answer so if you have a link to a site that would be great.

I always thought that Shakespeare INVENTED Elizabethan drama. Live and learn.

Here's a quote from one site:

By the time Shakespeare began to write, traditional conceptions about the order of the cosmos, and about the human place in the cosmos, had begun to be shaken. In 1543, Copernicus had published his work arguing that the earth revolved around the sun, while Machiavelli had challenged the notion of a divinely ordered state through his new conception of politics based on the realities of power. European explorations continued to redraw the map of the known world in radical ways. Nevertheless, older paradigms for understanding the cosmos, such as the Ptolemaic model of the universe, in which the earth was the center of a system of concentric spheres, continued to exert a powerful hold on European thought. For a poet, the metaphoric power of the older model, in which the soul inhabited the body, while the body was the very essence of a fallen earth, contingent and eternally besieged by sin, continued to be indispensable. In Sonnet 146, when Shakespeare used this powerful and traditional metaphor of the soul as center of a sinful earth, he was drawing on intellectual precepts that were not only deeply held in his time, but also, increasingly, bitterly contested.

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