Summary
Literature 2
English Literature,
ca. 1550-1700
Anouk de Waard
BA English Language and Culture
Leiden University
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Index 1
History 4
The Sixteenth Century, 1485-1603 4
The Court and the City 4
Renaissance Humanism 5
The Reformation 6
A Female Monarch in a Male World 7
The Kingdom in Danger 8
The English and otherness English identity 8
Writers, Printers, and Patrons 9
Tudor Style: Ornament, Plainness, and Wonder 10
The Elizabethan Theatre 11
Surprised by Time 13
Renaissance 14
The Early Seventeenth Century 16
State and Church, 1603-40 17
Literature and Culture, 1603-40 19
Old Ideas and New 19
Patrons, Printers, and Acting Companies 19
Jacobean Writers and Genres 21
The Caroline Era, 1625-40 22
The Revolutionary Era, 1640-60 23
First Civil War (1642-46) 24
Second Civil War (1648) 24
Literature and Culture, 1640-60 25
ILS - Mario Klarer 26
Poetry 26
Imagery 27
verbal dimension 27
visual dimension 27
rhythmic-acoustic dimension 27
Periods of Literature: Renaissance 28
Drama 28
Types of Drama 29
Three phases of Drama 30
Textual dimension 30
Transformation 30
Performance 30
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,OLD - Literary Terms 31
Lyric 31
Sonnet 31
Renaissance 33
Early Modern Period 33
Emblem 34
Pattern Poem 34
Tragedy 35
Romance 36
Comedy 37
Closet Drama 38
Polemic 38
Blank Verse 38
Enjambment 38
Authors 39
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder [1503-1542] 39
Henry Howard [1517-1547] 40
William Shakespeare [1564-1616] 41
History 41
John Donne [1572-1631] 43
George Herbert [1593-1633] 45
Christopher Marlowe [1564-1593] 46
Margaret Cavendish [1623-1673] 47
Katherine Philips [1632-1664] 48
Mary Wroth [1587-1651] 48
Andrew Marvell [1621-1664] 48
John Milton 49
Defending the Restoration settlement 49
Literary Works 53
The long love that in my thought doth harbour (Sir T. Wyatt the Elder) 53
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought (Henry Howard) 53
Sonnets 1, 19, 29, 30, 129, 130 (William Shakespeare) 54
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19 54
29 55
30 55
129 56
130 56
Pamphilia to Amphilantus: 1, 16, 39 (Mary Wroth) 57
Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint (John Milton) 58
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, The Flea (John Donne) 58
The Sun Rising (John Donne) 59
The Apparition (John Donne) 59
Sappho to Philaenis (John Donne) 60
Holy Sonnets 10, 14 (John Donne) 61
Easter Wings (George Herbert) 62
Church Monuments (George Herbert) 62
Easter (George Herbert) 63
Prayer (1) (George Herbert) 64
Jordan (2) (George Herbert) 64
Virtue (George Herbert) 65
Love (3) (George Herbert) 65
Dr Faustus (Christopher Marlowe) 66
The Tempest (William Shakespeare) 67
Summary 67
The Wedding Masque Masque 68
Court Masque 68
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare) 69
The Convent of Pleasure (Margaret Cavendish) 71
Othello (William Shakespeare) 73
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles (Katherine Philips) 75
An Horatian Ode (Andrew Marvell) 76
Paradise Lost (John Milton) 78
Leftover info from Lectures and Seminars 79
Form, tradition and innovation in the early modern sonnet 79
Terms for Sonnets 79
Recurring motives 79
The early history of the Sonnet 79
The donna angelica as a dominant motif in the Renaissance sonnet 79
The early modern stage 80
Geographical 80
Architectural 81
Social 82
Playing companies 82
Playwrights 82
Players 82
Audiences 83
Shakespearean Texts: Early history 84
Extra info Othello 84
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