5H Lit - Renaissance & Shakespeare

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Intro: poetry and literature

• Introduction to poetry 
• Renaissance
•  Romantic era
• Victorian age
• Modernism 
• Contemporary poetry
• Slam poetry

What do you think about when you hear the term poetry

Introduction to Poetry -Billy Collins

Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room

and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.

Which literary devices can you find in this poem?

LITERATURE

The Renaissance &

William Shakespeare

Today's lesson

• The Renaissance
  

History / Important people / Characteristics

• William Shakespeare
  

Life / Works

King Henry VIII

• Ruled from 1509 - 1547
  
• Founder of the Church of England > 1534
  
• Had 6 wives!

Tudor England > Religious Struggle

• 1534 Establishment of The Church of England
• The Reformation: Catholics vs Protestants
• Martyrs
  

Queen Elizabeth I

• Ruled from 1558 - 1603
• The Virgin Queen
• Civil War (1642-1651)
• Oliver Cromwell
• The Restoration (1660)

01:07

King 

Edward VI

Queen Mary 1

Queen Elizabeth 1

protestant

Catholic

mother = Catherine of Aragon

mother = Anne Boleyn

mother = Jane Seymour

01:07

Answers:

King Edward VI:

• mother = Jane Seymour
• protestant

Queen Mary I:

• mother = Catherine of Aragon
  
• Catholic

Queen Elizabeth I:  

• mother = Anne Boleyn
• protestant

02:43

Which is NOT true?

1. Mary was Elizabeth's aunt.
2. Mary was the nearest heir.
3. Elizabeth had Mary executed for treason .
4. Mary was Queen of Scotland.

03:12

Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada good news for Elizabeth?

Renaissance

The Renaissance

• Cultural and intellectual movement
• Art (painting / music / literature)
• Thought (philosophy / religion)
• Renewed interest in the classics
• 14th century Italy >> end of 15th century in England
  

Middle Ages vs The Renaissance

• What changed?
• collective vs individual
• theocentric vs humanistic
• dogmatic belief vs critical investigation
• MEMENTO MORI vs CARPE DIEM

Literature

• 1476
• The printing press
• William Caxton
• Lyrical poetry vs Narrative poetry
• Sonnets
• The Golden Age of English Literature 1580 - 1630

William Shakespeare

• 1564-1616 (Stratford-on-Avon)
• actor / writer / businessman
• 154 sonnets
• 37 plays

Shakespeare's plays

• Three types: comedy - tragedy - history play
• Famous comedies: As You Like It / A Midsummernight's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing
• Famous tragedies: Romeo and Juliet / Hamlet / Macbeth / Othello / King Lear
• Famous history plays: Richard III / Henry V

Shakespeare: Master of Language and Literature

• used a variety of sources: classical, historical, contemporary 
  
• turned existing subject-matter into something new and unique 
  
• showed deep understanding of human nature 

• was a master of language: invented 1,700 common words 
  
• produced some of the most famous quotations in English
  
• “To be or not to be, that’s the question”
  

Who is this?

1. Queen Elizabeth I
2. Gloriana
3. The Virgin Queen
4. Queen Mary I

When was the Church of England established?

1. 1485
2. 1534
3. 1558
4. 1603

Which motto fits the Renaissance best?

1. Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
2. Memento mori
3. Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam
4. Carpe diem

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

1. 36
2. 37
3. 38
4. 39

What always happens in a Shakespeare tragedy?