Renaissance (1485-1660) Flashcards
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Sir Philip Sidney
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The Lady of May- Pastoral Play Old Arcadia- 1580 New Arcadia- 1590 Sister- Countess of Pembroke, Mary Herbert Pyrocles- Philoclea Musidorous- Pamela Gloucester Plot- King Lear Duke Basilus- Lydia The Nightingale- Philomela Ring the Bells Out- Dirge Astrophel and Stella 108 sonnets Lady Rich/Penelope Deveurex Died in Battle of Zuteph The Defense of Poesie- 1595 Stephen Gosson- School of Abuse Plays confuted in five actions
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Edmund Spenser
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Exiled to Ireland Met Elizabeth Boyle Amoretti- recorded courtship 108 sonnets, 11 songs breaks Petrarchan conventions Epithalmion- Marriage Song The Faerie Queene- an immense epic poem The Faerie Queene- Gloriana- Elizabeth Unfinished - 6 books not 12 3 in 1590, other 3 in 1596 Redcrosse- Holiness Una- truth Duessa- Duplicity Guoyon- Temperance, Bower Britomart- Chastity, warrior in disguise Florimell- Beautiful woman Knights of Justice and Courtesy The Shepheardes Calendar 12 eclogues inspired by Virgil's eclogues Poet assumes the voice of the people Social commentary Colin Clout represents Spenser Character created by John Skelton Colin Clout comes Home Again Return from Ireland A View of the Present State of Ireland Scathing critique Gabriel Harvey- Friend
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Thomas Sackville
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Earl of Dorset A Mirror for Magistrates Gorboduc- First Tragedy (1561) In blank verse WRITTEN ALONG WITH THOMAS NORTON Gorboduc is the king Ferrex and Porrex Porrex kills his elder brother Ferrex Queen Videna kills Porrex Enraged subjects kill both the King and Queen Inspired by Seneca Ignored classical unities of time and place
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Michael Drayton
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Renaissance Poet
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End of War of Roses
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1485
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First book to be printed
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Thomas Malory’s
Le Morte De Arthur
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Reformation
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Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aaragon. Separated from the Catholic Church and estb. himself as head of the Church and State
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Martin Luther
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1517
95 theses against the Sale of Papal Indulgences
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Erasmus
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Humanist thinking
The Praise of Folly- purify Catholic church not abolish it
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Guy Fawkes
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5th Nov. 1905
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Spanish Armada
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Defeated in 1588
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First Public Theatre
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Estb. in 1576
By James Burbage
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Elizabethean Age
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1558-1603
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Sonnets
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Thomas Wyatt introduced them in England Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey) was the first to write sonnets like Shakespeare Together they wrote the earliest anthology of sonnets- Tottel's Miscellany
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Henry Medwall
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Fulgens and Lucrece
Successful early Tudor Drama
