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A summary of renaissance English literature notes and extensive analysis by Romeo and Juliet
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Engels – Ella de Vries T61Renaissance / Romeo & Juliet
Renaissance
1400 – 1600 worldwide
1550 – 1650 England
Middle Ages Renaissance
- 5th – 15th century - 16th – 17th century
- Religion - Humanism
- Community - Individualism
- Villages - Cities
- Feudalism - Self-fashioning
- Still class differences
- Little Education - Lots of education
- Focus on survival - Focus on art and (personal)
development
- Art is religious
- Art is neoclassical
Religion:
- Bible interpretation
- Henry VIII’s declaration of independence
- Geocentric becomes Heliocentric
Inventions:
- Printing Press
- King James Bible
- Microscope
- Telescope
- Flush Toilet
- A sense of self
Golden age of English literature.
- William Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet | Hamlet | Henry IV | Macbeth
- John Donne: Holy Sonnets
Sonnets:
14 lines
Rhyme scheme
Volta/Twist
Love
Shakespeare plays:
Themes
Wordplay
Symbolism
Rhyme and meter
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Romeo & Juliet
Scenes
Prologue: Sonnet
“Two households both alike in dignity in fair Verona where we lay our scene …”
The whole play gets spoiled + climax
Our toil shall start to mend
Act I scene 5: First meeting between Romeo and Juliet
“O, she doth the torches to burn bright!”
Thumb biting; Montague (Romeo) + Capulet (Juliet) don’t like each other.
Party announced
Romeo loves Rosaline sees Juliet and falls head over heels in love with her.
Act II scene 2: balcony scene
“But soft, what light trough yonder window breaks.”
‘Anon!’
Act II scene 6: marriage + PEACE
“As gunpowder and flame which as they kiss consume.”
Friar is a brother and confused why Romeo doesn’t love Rosaline anymore.
Romeo believes that not even death can counteract the pleasure he feels in marrying Juliet.
Act III scene 1: Mercutio and Tybalt dead = VIOLENCE
“A plaque on both our houses.” “I have to love thee .. I see thou knowest me not.”
Tybalt is mad and kills Mercutio. Romeo is so mad that he kills Tybalt.
Act III scene 5: Romeo gets banished
Romeo and Juliet say goodbye
Juliet talks to the nurse.
Act IV scene 5: nurse find Juliet dead.
“Death lies on the ike an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
Juliet has to marry Paris.
Friar gives her the potion
Nurse finds her and Juliet gets placed in the tomb.
Friar send message to Romeo but it doesn’t arrive.
Act V scene 5: tomb and death, statues and woe = CLIMAX
“For never a story was more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Fight before tomb and Paris gets killed
Romeo thinks she’s dead suicide
Juliet awakes suicide
Rivalry is no more
Themes
Light/Dark contrast
o Secrecy
o R&J’s love mostly happens at night.
o Juliet is often associated with light in the darkness.
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