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

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals and planning

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

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

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

The answers to

Whoso list to hunt

Christopher Marlowe

Homework

Read pages 22 to 24

do questions 1 to 7