Important Literary Groups Flashcards
University Wits
CPR Twice
Chistropher Marlowe George Peele Robert Grenne Thomas Nashe Thomas Lodge
Educated in Oxford and Cambridge
Thomas Kyd is included at times but he WAS NOT educated at a University
Thomas Nashe
The Isle of Dogs
In collaboration with Ben Jonson
Jonson and he got into trouble with authorities over this work as the title is the same as a royal palace in London
The tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage was his work in collaboration with Christopher Marlowe
Based on Virgil’s Aeneid
It is about Dido who falls in love with Aeneas and kills herself once he chooses not to stay by her side.
The Unfortunate Traveller His most famous work Earliest English Picaresque novel Subtitle- The life of Jackie Wilton Jackie is a page in the court of Henry VIII. He is a trickster whose travels take him to Italy.
Pious Penniless and his supplication to the Devil
Man complains to the devil about the customs
Humorous
Christ Tears over Jerusalem
He criticizes Puritan Ideology
An Anatomy of Absurdity
Criticizes the follies of his contemporary writers
Lenten Stuff
Burlesque version of Hero and Leander
The Terrors of the Night
Honest account of Nightmares and Dreams
George Peele
The Mythological Pastoral Place
The Arraignment at Paris
The Battle at Alzacar
Edward I
Old Wives’ Tale- Satirical drama
Novel by same name was written by
Arnold Bennett
