Renaissance (1485-1660) Flashcards
Sir Philip Sidney
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
Edmund Spenser
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
Thomas Sackville
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
Michael Drayton
Renaissance Poet
End of War of Roses
1485
First book to be printed
Thomas Malory’s
Le Morte De Arthur
Reformation
Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aaragon. Separated from the Catholic Church and estb. himself as head of the Church and State
Martin Luther
1517
95 theses against the Sale of Papal Indulgences
Erasmus
Humanist thinking
The Praise of Folly- purify Catholic church not abolish it
Guy Fawkes
5th Nov. 1905
Spanish Armada
Defeated in 1588
First Public Theatre
Estb. in 1576
By James Burbage
Elizabethean Age
1558-1603
Sonnets
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
Henry Medwall
Fulgens and Lucrece
Successful early Tudor Drama
Nicholas Udall
Ralph Roister Doister
Regarded as the first English comedy
Another Comedy
Gammar Gurton’s Needle
