Part III: Elizabethan Era

Question 1

Early Modern Poetry

Answer 1

(- Anne Askew
- Tottel: Songs & Sonnets)

• Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella
• Edmund Spencer: The Sheperades Calendar, The Faerie Queen
• Shakespeare: narrative poems (Venus and Adonis, The Rape of the Lucres) + sonnet

Question 2

John Lyly

Answer 2

Eupheuism (Eupheus the anatomy of wit)
Refined audience

-> Sh: Twelve Night, As you like it

Question 3

George Peele

Answer 3

Courtier

The Old Wives Tale (satire of romantic + play in the play)

Question 4

Anonymous play inspired from true story

Answer 4

Arden if Faversham
Domestic drama
Mayor murdered by his wife and his lover

Question 5

Thomas Kyd

Answer 5

• The Spanish tragedy

- > Hamlet

Question 6

Christopher Marlowe

Answer 6

Libertine, atheist

• Tamburlaine
• The Jew of Malta
• Doctor Faust

Question 7

Robert Greene

Answer 7

Sh: “upstart crow beautifies with our feathers” (Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit)

• Looking-glass for London and England
• Fry Bacon and Fry Bungay
• James IV

-> Sh: amnd, The winters tale