Презентация, доклад по литературе Англии Социальная и историческая характеристика эпохи Возрождения

had so far experienced, a time which called for giants and produced giants - giants in powder and thought, passion and character, in universality and learning…”.

More
“Utopia”

Outline

Shakespeare. 
Renaissance means the Revival of Learning, and it denotes in its broadest sense the gradual enlightenment of the human mind after the darkness of the Middle Ages.
The word Renaissance has been derived from a French word, which means rebirth.

The Renaissance

The Early Tudor age
(1500-1557)

The Elizabethan age
(1558-1603)

The Jacobean age
(1603-1625)

The Caroline age
(1625-1642)

includes the Elizabethan period which ends with the completion of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in England whose first monarch was Henry VII (1457–1509).

The Early Tudor Age

terms of political, social and cultural development, and in comparison with Continental Europe.
The Elizabethan age as a Renaissance that inspired national pride through classical ideals, international expansion, and naval triumph over the hated and feared Spanish.

The Elizabethan Age

often used for the distinctive styles of Jacobean architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature which characterized that period.
In literature, some of Shakespeare's most prominent plays, including King Lear (1605), Macbeth (1606), and The Tempest (1610), were written during the reign of James I. 

The Jacobean Age

been regarded as a diminished continuation of the trends of the previous two reigns.
In poetry, however, the Caroline period saw the flourishing of the Cavalier poets (including Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling) and the Metaphysical poets (George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips and others).
If the Elizabethan era was the golden age of English drama, the Caroline age was nearly as rich in the realm of non-dramatic poetry.

The Caroline Age

answer the demands of a new class.
Feudal discord The establishment of the absolute monarchy forming of nations (creation of national languages)
Catholic dogmas (medieval concepts) did not correspond to the new trend of life National Churches appeared.

Historical Background

of individual initiative and enterprise, the value of man as such. Instead of the blind faith ordered by the Catholic religion, great importance was assigned to intellect, to experience, to scientific experiment.

Humanism

with the fall of Constantinople. Due to occupation of Constantinople by the Turks, the Greek scholars fled their homeland and took refuge in Italy. When they came to Italy, they brought with them precious and unique treasures of ancient Greek literature in manuscripts. The study of this literature fired up the soul and imagination of the Italy of that time and created a new kind of intellectual and aesthetics culture so different from that of the middle ages.
Though, the influence of Renaissance was felt very late in England, yet it was of paramount importance in terms English literature. It left long lasting influence on the every department of English literature.

a lyric, a sonnet and a narrative poetry.
A lyric is a ________form that expresses the poet’s personal______ in a songlike style. Thomas Campion wrote many beautiful lyrics in his “Books of Airs”

Elizabethan poetry

rhyme and rhythm. Elizabethan poets wrote 2 types of sonnets: the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet.
The two types differed in the arrangement of the rhymes.
W. Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser wrote sonnet sequences. It is a group of sonnets based on a single theme or about one person.

and Spenser wrote narrative poems. Shakespeare based his “Venus and Adonis” (1953) on a Roman myth. Spenser borrowed heavily on medieval romances.

his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935.

literary genre. More served as an important counselor to King Henry VIII of England, serving as his key counselor in the early 1500s, but after he refused to accept the king as head of the Church of England, he was tried for treason and beheaded (he died in London, England, in 1535). More is noted for coining the word "Utopia," in reference to an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason.

is the main trend of the epoch?
What are the four periods of the Renaissance? Give a little talk about each of them.
How did English-Spanish war influenced the literature of the 16-th century?
What is a lyric? A sonnet? A narrative poem?

Questions

English literature? What is a blank verse?
Elizabethan drama and its main themes. A famous group of Elizabethan playwrights.
The Stuarts and the Puritans.
Metaphysical and Cavalier poets.
Jacobean drama.
Prose writings.

Gordeeva. pp. 46 – 49