Renaissance
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- Humanism
- Belief that people are more important than instutions
- Pastimes
- public hangings, witch burnings, bear baiting, dances, philosophical discussion
- Scientists
- Galileo
- Artists
- Michelangelo
- Wife 1: Catherine of Arogon of Spain
- married his brother first; counldn't deliver male heir; so divorced due to illegal marriage (inlaw)
- Bloody Mary
- Burned 200 herelics
- 1616
- Shakespeare dies
- Synecdoche
- a part represented the hole (cow head)
- Carpe Diem
- Seize the day
- Wife 3: Jane Seymour
- Love of Henry's life; bore Edward then died
- Renaissance
- Rebirth
- Puritans
- Puritan literature dealing with the bible and religion
- Henry's Religion
- Catholic
- Metonymy
- substuting a word closely associated with another word (suits)
- Henry 8 Born
- 1491
- Wife 5: Catherine Howard
- Young, pretty, brainless, had affair with Culpepper, then beheaded
- Apostrophe
- Absent thing is directly addressed
- Edward VI's Relgion
- Protestant; sponsoored the writing of the Common book of prayer
- Elizabeth I
- Virgin Queen who was loved
- Courtier
- court flatter & entertainer
- Wife 4: Anne of Cleves
- mail-order bride, bought her off to get rid of her; "the king's good sister"
- Wife 6: Catherine Parr
- Mostly a nurse, not wife
- 1517
- Protestant Reformation ( Martin Luther & his 95 Thesis)
- Protestant Reformation
- Protest against Roman Catholic church & its corruption
- 1485
- Defeat of Richard III by Henry VII at Bosworth Field
- soliloquoy
- A monologue by a character alone on a stage
- 1660
- The monarch is restored ending the renaissance
- Popular Literature
- Plays performed by troops at a fast pace
- Wife 2: Anne Boleyn
- Charming & charged with incest for she spent time with her brother; beheaded
- Cavalier
- Lyric poetry; love poems
- Mary I
- Took throne in 1558; Catholic
- Epic
- long, narrite poem dealing with heros
- Edward VI
- Took throne in 1547 when he was nine and died of small pox
- Metaphysical
- Highly intelleuctal style; use of conceits
- 1564
- Shakespeare born
- Poor Laws
- Devised by Elizabeth I to help the underprivileged
- Causes of Renaissance
- Moveable type, development of banking, voyages of discovery
- 1588
- British navy defeats the Spanish Armada; high point of English Renaissance
- James I
- Introduced golf, but was a disappointmwent who made Parliament stronger
- Bucolic
- Refers to the country
- Pastoral
- Poem glorifying country life
- Charles I
- Jame's son; fought civil war against cromwell; beheaded
- In medias res
- beginning in the middle