U6 L1 Elizabethan Songs Flashcards
From which period did the Tudor family rule England?
1485- 1603 (118 years)
How many members of the Tudor family ruled England?
five
How many years did Elizabeth I rule?
45
What did the Roman Catholic Pope refuse to grant Henry VIII?
divorce form his Spanish Wife, Catherine, so she could marry Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII cutting ties with the Church in Rome established and introduced what?
- Anglican Church of England
- Protestant Reformation, begun in Germany
Who was Henry VIII’s Son and successor?
Edward VI
Who was Edward VI’s successor?
Mary (Henry and Catherine’s daughter)
Who was Elizabeth I the daughter of?
Anne Boleyn
How many men and ships did the Spaniards lose on July 1588?
- 63 ships
- 9000 men
What kind of period was the Elizabethan Age?
geographical exploration and expanision
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
What did the Renaissance bring out?
- creativity and fine arts
- spirit of individualism
- intellectual thought
- insight to purpose and significance of person
What did the Renaissance bring out in terms of individualism?
- Elizabethans should consider life as more than a process for waiting for life after death
- life= exciting and should be enjoyed
The Renaissance ideal expanded the concept of the individual to include which aspects of human personality?
- spiritual
- rational
- emotional
- physical
Which two instruments were developed in the Elizabethan Age?
- Virginal
- Viola da gamba
What is Songs and Sonnets, who made it and when?
- 1577
- Richard Tottel
- collection of songs and lyrics
What is Songs and Sonnets usually called?
Tottel’s Miscellany
What are 2 similar song books to Songs and Sonnets?
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices
- The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions
What did Elizabethan songs often allude to?
Greek mythology
Who did the poet of ‘The Triumph of Charis’ use as his subject? Who is it?
Charis, personification of beauty and charm
What does complemented mean?
filled up, completed, brought to perfection
What is abstraction?
- not concrete
- quality separated from object
What is concrete?
- something can perceive by senses
- smell, taste, feel, hear, see
What is equating?
treating/regarding as the same
What are songs that are covered in this topic?
- Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes (Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grisill)
- Song from Much Ado about Nothing
- The Triumph of Charis
- Song from Cymbeline
- The Man of Life Upright
- Spring, the Sweet Spring
Which song is an awakening song?
Song from Cymbeline
What is Personification?
- figure of speech
- gives human forms/traits to something not human (inanimate obj, animal, abstraction)
What is Alliteration?
- figure of speech
- repetition of same sounds
- enhances meaning of words
What is Alllusion?
- figure of speech
- adds touch of sophistication
- reference (direct/indirect) to a well-known literary, Scriptural, or historical event or person
What is imagery?
- figure of speech
- uses concrete details to appeal reader’s senses (word picture)
- hear, touch, smell, taste, see
Who wrote The Triumph of Charis?
Ben Jonson
Who wrote Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes?
Thomas Dekker
Who wrote the Song from Cymbeline?
William Shakespeare
Who wrote the Song from Much Ado About Nothing?
William Shakespeare
Who wrote The Man of Life Upright?
Thomas Campion
What was The Man of Life Upright from?
A Book of Airs XVIII
Who wrote Spring, the Sweet Spring?
Thomas Nashe
What was Spring, the Sweet Spring from?
Summer’s Last Will and Testament
