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Stephanie Artavia MoscosoLisa Matamoros MartinCarmen Guillén Alvarado
beginnings • Italy, 14th century.
• Rising from a darker age.
• Rebirth: awakening and hope.
• Humanity was progressing.
• Flourishing democracy
• Greater commerce and trade.
• People traveled more around the world.
• Products, wealth, and ideas spread.
• Rebirth of passion and creativity, impacting the world.
Humanism
• Mankind was believed capable
of earthly perfection beyond
what had ever been imagined
before.
• English Renaissance: 1500-1660.
• Economic growth.
• Nationalism .
• London became a metropolis.
• England went from barbaric to a commercial power.
The printing press
• The single greatest innovation of the Renaissance era.
• Changed the world of arts and letters.
• Helped expand information and literature.
Literature
• It rivals anything else of the period.
• Greatest works of literature the world has known.
• The spirit of optimism, unlimited potential, and the stoic English.
• From a “barbarian” nation to a seat of commercial power and influence.
• It translated into a literature that was bold, sweeping, innovative, and trend-setting.
• Poets experimented with form, and dramatists revived and reinvented the classical traditions of the Greeks and Romans.
• Varieties of poetry:
LyricElegy
TragedyPastoral
Near the close of the English Renaissance, John Milton composed his epic Paradise Lost, widely considered the grandest poem in the language
• Drama
• William Shakespeare : variety, profundity, and exquisite use of language.
• The theatre became a bona fide cultural institution.
Important!•Translation of the bible
The end• The quest for human perfection had
given way to decadence, cynicism, and an introversion which would stifle creativity.
• The rise of Puritanism.
• Failure of Queen Elizabeth to produce an heir.
Authors
William
Shakespeare
• 1564-1616
• English poet and playwright .
• 154 Sonnets.
• Nine tragedies: Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth.
• 38 plays.
Impact on literature • Powerful language.
• Understanding of human nature.
• Expanded dramatic potencial.
Edmund
Spenser
• 1552-1599
• Most influential poets of the Elizabethan Age.
• Poets' Poet
• The Faerie Queene: an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.