16&17th Century - Context Flashcards
1
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context, main themes (8)
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- renaissance
- rise of; tragedies; comedies;sonnets; classical verse
- allegorical poetry
- drama becomes more popular
- Elizabethan and Jacobean
- metaphysical poetry
- theatres closed 1642-51
2
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Key texts (5 authors)
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Shakespeare: Othello, Much Ado, Romeo and Juliet, Sonnet 18, Sonnet 90, Sonnet 130
Marlowe: The passionate shepherd to his love
Donne: A Valedictions: Forbidding Mourning (metaphysical)
Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Milton: Paradise Lost
