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English summary topic 'Literature'

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This document contains a summary on the subject of 'literature' in the English course. The following topics will be covered: renaissance, facts on Shakespeare, the romantic period and modern literature. With each current, the origin and characteristics are displayed.

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  • December 29, 2021
  • December 29, 2021
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  • engels
  • 6 vwo
  • literature
  • renaissance
  • elizabethan age
  • elizabethan theatre
  • facts on shakespeare
  • the romantic period
  • modern literature
  • novel of character
  • novel of adventure
  • vwo
  • samenvatting

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Engels Tentamen: Literature
Renaissance 

Curiosity about the nature of world
Exploration of the world (Columbus)
Description of the period  Inventions / discoveries (Galilei, Copernicus)
Renaissance: 1500-1700
Literacy
Slogan  More and more people learnt to read and
 1300 – Middeleeuwen: Memento Memori (= write
gedenk te sterven)  Invention of the printing press
 Renaissance  mentaliteitsverandering From 1450 more books were printed
 1600 – Vroeg Moderne Tijd: Carpe Diem (= and more
seize the day) Ideas were spread

Meaning name Religion
Renaissance = rebirth of classical Roman an Greek Reformation: people did not want to be dominated
art and literature by the Roman Catholic church anymore and broke
with Rome. A return to original sources (Bible).
Paintings Many Protestants were burnt…
 Realistic: people looked like real people with
muscles and curves Elizabethan Age
 Variety in themes: landscapes, portraits, Greek Queen Elisabeth reigned in England from 1558-
legend, religious 1604. She loved theatre.  advantage to
Shakespeare
Architecture
 Greek temple like buildings Elizabethan Theatre
 Pillar like columns Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote for the theatre.

Literature
 The literature is signed
 Main genres: classical plays (comedies,
tragedies and histories), (epic) poems, sonnets
 William Shakespeare (37 plays, 154 sonnets),
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare wrote comedies,
histories and tragedies
Shakespeare was born in 1564
 Plays written in blank verse: no rhyme (vrijheid
in schrijven), iambic pentameter

Sculpture
 Realistic human classical / Biblical figures
 Rebirth of Greek and classical art

Philosophy / way of thinking
 People started to think
for themselves
 Anthropocentric =
focus on mankind Characteristics:
 Humanism: belief in  Open air and in daylight
ideal society on earth  Balcony (Juliet, angels) and lower stage
Thomas More: (villains, ghosts, devil)
Utopia  Apron stage, jutting out into the audience
 Individuality  Audience stood around the stage, close by=
Science groundlings: shouting, peeing, eating

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