Renaissance + Enlightenment

Question 1

Scottish Chaucerians

Answer 1

15th cent- Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas

Question 2

University Wits

Answer 2

16th cent- Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included in the group, though he is not believed to have studied at university.

Question 3

Comedy of Humours

Answer 3

Restoration Comedy

Ben Jonson, George Chapman

Question 4

Son of Ben

Answer 4

first half of the 17 century Thomas Killigrew William Cavendish

Question 5

Metaphysical poets

Answer 5

17th century
John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Cleveland, and Abraham Cowley as well as, to a lesser extent, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw.

Question 6

Cavalier Poets

Answer 6

17th century

The best known of the cavalier poets are Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling.

Question 7

Commedia dell’arte

Answer 7

Italian comedy

Question 8

Kit Kat Club

Answer 8

18th century,

William Congreve, John Locke, Sir John Vanbrugh, and Joseph Addison,

Question 9

Scriblerus Club

Answer 9

18th century (1714)
The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Other members were John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell.
Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims.

Question 10

Graveyard Poets

Answer 10

Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell’s Robert Blair’s Edward Young’s