Renaissance, worksheet 15

After the introduction
of the printing press many more people were able to buy and have books and many learned how to read; women, for example. And the middle class (remember: religious and noble men already knew how to read and write)
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After the introduction
of the printing press many more people were able to buy and have books and many learned how to read; women, for example. And the middle class (remember: religious and noble men already knew how to read and write)

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

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The Renaissance! 
In French: la renaissance; or the Rebirth! 
Gave a fresh look on worldly life 
"That’s nice! So we can enjoy life? Instead of waiting to go to heaven? I like that! Let’s explore the world” 

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Renaissance in the arts
Pastorals and earthly abundance, humanism and anatomy 

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

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Renaissance in world discovery


1492 > the discovery 
of the Americas by 

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

1516 > Utopia
by Thomas More, also translated into various languages, described the ’new world’ and who/what was discovered there. 

Thomas More - painted by Hans Holbein

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

From Italy, with love 

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Do you remember the sonnet? 
* 14 lines
* rhyme scheme (Petrarcan or Shakespearian or ...)
* Rhythm: iambic pentameter
* The Shift in voice

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Middle English
Early Modern English

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

What have you learned? 
* Renaissance means (in English) ....
* Where did the changes take place? # 1, # 2, # 3 .....
* The English language changed like this: ....

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Ben Crystal
Performs Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets in their original pronunciation

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Slide 14 - Video