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Contextual information?? (1 Viewer)

rosygirls92

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Does contextual information mean information in the time period of which it was written or contextual info of what happens in the book? :angel:
 

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The 'context' of a text refers to the time period in which in was written; namely, the background of the composer.
For example, the context of a Shakespeare play is the Elizabethan era (as this is the composer's background) and not the era in which it is set.
The context influences the composer to think in a certain way about the content of their text, and usually relates to the general ideas of that era in respect to the era the composer wishes to recreate.
 

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