Слайд 1Renaissance
BRITISH LITERATURE
Слайд 2STARTER
Work in small groups to create MIND MAP of the Renaissance
period
Слайд 3FOCUS QUESTIONS
Renaissance: brief history and characteristic features
Major Renaissance figures
The Golden Age
in British Literature
Слайд 4RENAISSANCE (1485-1603)
Rebirth from barbarism of the Middle Ages that started in
Italy (14th c.) and spread out over Europe. In England it began to be felt towards the close of the 15th c.
Слайд 5RENAISSANCE FIGURES
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Titian
Michelangelo
Слайд 6RENAISSANCE FIGURES
Galileo Galilei
William Shakespeare
Christopher Columbus
Слайд 7Characteristic Features
-The Age of Discovery
- commerce between
Europe and East
-Columbus
Voyages.
People gained the opportunity to show themselves initiative, ambitious, heroic, with a sense of personality.
Слайд 8Humanist outlook, marked with optimism, belief in man’s great abilities; interest
in the matters of men-human rather than divine.
Слайд 9A revival of interest in the ancient culture of Greece and
Rome but with a new sense of what had been lost throughout the Middle Ages.
Creating of new culture, new literature, new outlook, and new hopes.
Слайд 10Historical Background
The Renaissance gave the mankind such great men in literature
as: Petrarche, Boccacio, Cervantes.
In England the most notable of the men who care to create a new literature were:
Слайд 11Historical Background
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
Слайд 12
It was the time of Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 -
1603) when England was developing into a strong nation, peaceful and wealthy at home, powerful overseas.
Слайд 13The Elizabethan Age
is marked by features so distinct and so superior
that it has been called the “Golden Age in English literature.” Works of Shakespeare, new forms of literature, great quantity of talented poets and dramatists.
Слайд 14It is the age of poetry: lyric poetry and poetic drama
(plays in verse) in the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson. Yet after them, the poetic drama becomes very rare in English literature.
Слайд 15Elizabethan Theatre
was nothing like modern one at all. The first theatre
or playhouse was built in 1576 by James Burbage.
Слайд 16EDMUND SPENSER
(1552-1599)
Poet Laureate (honorary position appointed by the monarch), known
as the “prince of poets” or the “poet’s poet” as he had
a rich dreamy
music and a skill
in poetic form.
Слайд 17His most notable poetic achievement is The Faerie Queene, set in
the world of King Arthur and his knights with. For it he invented a new stanza- a group of lines forming a unit in a poem, known now as Spenserian stanza- a nine-line stanza, rhyming ababbcbcc which was later used by many great English poets.
Слайд 18 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
Philip Sidney is perhaps the supreme example
of the ideal Elizabethan gentleman: a brave soldier, a great traveller, a noted patron of the arts, a courtier, a particular favourite of Queen Elizabeth and a gifted writer.
Слайд 19He is best noted as the author of Astrophel and Stella,
a series of 110 brief poems - sonnets that develop a single subject, love.
Слайд 20CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
Born in the same year as Shakespeare he was
killed in a brawl when he was 29. By that time he established himself as a powerful dramatist with his tragedies, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Dr Faustus earning the title …
Слайд 21“ father of English tragedy”. He established the use of blank
verse in the English drama, a form of verse, which Shakespeare adopted and brought to technical perfection.
Слайд 22SIR FRANCIS BACON
(1561-1626)
an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator,
and author.
Some famous quotes:
‘It is impossible to love and to be wise’.
‘It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral’.
‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested’.
Слайд 23BACON as a WRITER
Of all Bacon’s literary writings the most popular
- Essays and Counsels (в русском переводе: «Опыты, или
наставления
нравственные и
политические»)
Слайд 24BACON AS A WRITER
Bacon was the first English writer to make
use of the essay as a new literary form and shape it to his own taste. The Baconian essay is objective, compact and logical.
Слайд 25MIND MAP (redesigned)
Work in mini-groups to create your MIND MAP of
the Renaissance period. Pay special attention to the British Literature. Be ready to share your ideas with the class.