renaissance

    Cards (14)

    • Elizabethan Period

      Period of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century
    • Key figures of the Elizabethan Period

      • William Shakespeare
      • Edmund Spenser
      • Christopher Marlowe
      • Thomas More
      • Philip Sidney
      • John Donne
      • Andrew Marvell
      • Ben Jonson
      • John Milton
    • Printing press
      • Introduced to England in 1476 by William Caxton
    • Humanism
      Two primary goals: perfection of individual human character and reform of public evils, in church and state; encouraged greater care in the study of the literature of classical antiquity and reformed education in such a way as to make literary expression of paramount importance for the cultured person
    • Utopia
      Distant nation organized on purely reasonable principles, described by Thomas More in 1516
    • Philip Sidney

      • Ideal courtly poet of the Elizabethan Age; inaugurated the vogue of the sonnet cycle
      • Wrote Astrophel and Stella, Arcadia, and Defence of Poesie
    • Edmund Spenser

      • Bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods; invented the Spenserian stanza
      • Best known for The Faerie Queene
    • Christopher Marlowe
      • First great English dramatist and most important Elizabethan dramatist before William Shakespeare
      • Masterpiece is The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
    • Metaphysical Poetry

      Inclined to the personal and intellectual complexity and concentration; a blend of emotion and intellectual ingenuity, characterized by conceit or "wit"; less concerned with expressing feeling than with analyzing it, with the poet exploring the recesses of his consciousness
    • John Donne

      • Considered the greatest of the metaphysical poets and one of the greatest writers of love poetry
      • Wrote A Valediction: Of Weeping, Holy Sonnet # 10, and Satires
    • Andrew Marvell

      • English poet and satirist
      • Wrote The Garden, To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love, and other poems
    • William Shakespeare

      • Recognized as the greatest dramatist; produced perhaps the most varied and powerful body of work any author has ever written
      • Wrote 154 sonnets between 1595 and 1599
      • Wrote plays such as The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
    • Ben Jonson
      • English dramatist and poet, with classical learning, gift for satire, and brilliant style
      • Best comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicene, or the Silent Woman, and Bartholomew Fair
    • John Milton
      • English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty
      • Wrote the epic poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, as well as other works like Lycidas and Samson Agonistes