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    The 16th century saw the English Renaissance flourish under the Tudor dynasty. In England, this period saw the rise of great playwrights like William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays between 1589-1613, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. Spenser was one of England's greatest poets and wrote The Faerie Queene, an epic poem. Meanwhile, other influential figures included playwright Christopher Marlowe, who helped establish blank verse as standard, and philosopher Thomas More, who was executed but wrote the influential work Utopia.

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    The 16th century saw the English Renaissance flourish under the Tudor dynasty. In England, this period saw the rise of great playwrights like William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays between 1589-1613, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. Spenser was one of England's greatest poets and wrote The Faerie Queene, an epic poem. Meanwhile, other influential figures included playwright Christopher Marlowe, who helped establish blank verse as standard, and philosopher Thomas More, who was executed but wrote the influential work Utopia.

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    The 16th century saw the English Renaissance flourish under the Tudor dynasty. In England, this period saw the rise of great playwrights like William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays between 1589-1613, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. Spenser was one of England's greatest poets and wrote The Faerie Queene, an epic poem. Meanwhile, other influential figures included playwright Christopher Marlowe, who helped establish blank verse as standard, and philosopher Thomas More, who was executed but wrote the influential work Utopia.

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    England in The 16th Century

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    The 16th century saw the English Renaissance flourish under the Tudor dynasty. In England, this period saw the rise of great playwrights like William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays between 1589-1613, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. Spenser was one of England's greatest poets and wrote The Faerie Queene, an epic poem. Meanwhile, other influential figures included playwright Christopher Marlowe, who helped establish blank verse as standard, and philosopher Thomas More, who was executed but wrote the influential work Utopia.

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    THE SIXTEENTH

    CENTURY
    1485 - 1603
    HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
    • England – the dynasty of Tudors
     English renaissance
     Elizabethan era
    • Spain – the reign of Philip III. ( Francisco Gómez, his minister)
     Golden age of literature, architecture, painting
     Miguel de Cervantes, Diego Velázquez
     expulsion of the Moriscos

    • France – The Kingdom of France


     the House of Bourbon
     Hundred Years‘ War
    ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
    • early 16th century, during the reign of Henry VIII.
    • origin of Renaissance: Italy (Florence)
     „the rebirth“

    • Elizabethan era (second half of the sixteenth century)


    • different from the Italian renaissance – focus on literature and music
    LITERATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE ERA
    • strong tradition in the English vernacular
     interpretations and translations of the Bible
     William Tyndale (1526)  King James Version of the Bible
    • Roger Ascham, „father of English prose“
     „Speech is the greatest gift to man from God.“
    • the peak of English drama = the Elizabethan Age
     a golden age in English history
    • Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Thomas Wyatt, …
    • Francis Bacon, Thomas More, Thomas Hobbes
    ELIZABETHAN ERA (1558-1603)
    • Tudor period, reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
    • golden age of the British history
     drama – plays of Shakespeare
     prose – historical chronicles, pamphlets, literary criticism, first English
    novels
     poetry – the sonnet, dramatic blank verse, spenserian stanza

    • writers and playwrights


     Edmund Spenser
     Christopher Marlowe
     William Shakespeare
    EDMUND SPENSER (1552/53-1599)
    • one of the greatest English poets
    • influenced by Roman poets
    • the Spenserian stanza
    • The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
     first major work
     the months together form an year, but each month stands alone as a
    separate poem
    • The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596)
     epic poem
     2 sets of 3 books
    SPENSERIAN STANZA
    Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
      As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
      Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
      For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
      And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
      Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
      Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
      To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
    Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.
    CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
    • English playwright, poet, translator
    • influenced Shakespeare??
    • blank verse  standard for that era
    • Tamburlaine the Great (1587/1588)
     based on Central Asian emperor Timur
     clumsy language and loose plotting  vivid language and intellectual
    complexity
    • The massacre at Paris (1593)
    • Doctor Faustus (1558-1592)
     tragedy
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
    • English playwright, poet, actor
    • England‘s national poet, the „Bard of Avon“
    • traslations of his plays into all languages
    • between 1589-1613 produced most of his plays
     comedies, historical plays
     tragedies
     tragicomedies/romances

    • the Sonnets
    THOMAS MORE
    • English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, Renaissance humanist
    • against the Protestant reformation and theology
    • execution
     „I die the King's good servant, and God's first.“
    • Utopia (1516)
     controversial, socio-political satire
     fictional island society
     Influenced other utopias or dystopias: Gulliver‘s travels, Candide, …
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR
    ATTENTION.

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