Literatur: Renaissance - Thomas Wyatt -Sonnets - Christopher Marlowe intro

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This lesson contains 11 slides, with text slides and 3 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

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Goals and planning
  • Sonnets - Italian vs English
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Whoso list to hunt - the answers
  • Christopher Marlowe - an introduction
  • The end

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Italian Sonnet
  • Petrarca - (1304 - 1374)
  • 14 lines - 2 quatrains (octave) and 2 tercets (sextet)
  • abba abba cdc cdc/cde cde
  • volta or turn in sextet/line 9
  • iambic pentameter - ten syllables (da-Dum da-Dum etc. etc)
English/Shakespearean Sonnet
  • Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
  • 14 lines - octave sextet
  • abab cdcd efef GG
  • Volta not necessarily
  • iambic pentameter

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
  • Classical courtier (someone who lied and worked at the royal courts and was busy with the art forms of the day)
  • Ambassador to Henry VIII 
  • Rivaled the King for Anne Boleyn's affection
  • Sent to the Vatican to help Henry VIII divorce 
  • First to translate Petrarca to English

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Slide 5 - Video

The answers to
Whoso list to hunt

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Christopher Marlowe

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Homework
Read pages 22 to 24
do questions 1 to 7

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