CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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William Shakespeare was an English poet who is considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time. During the 1500s and early 1600s in the United Kingdom‚ Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. However‚ for nearly two centuries people have been questioning the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. Oddly enough‚ the first time anyone suggested Shakespeare might not be the author of his work was a joke. In 1848‚ a Lutheran scholar named Samuel Schmucker compared academic efforts to cast doubt upon
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Epithalamion Summary Epithalamion is an ode written by Edmund Spenser as a gift to his bride‚ Elizabeth Boyle‚ on their wedding day. The poem moves through the couples’ wedding day‚ from the groom’s impatient hours before dawn to the late hours of night after the husband and wife have consummated their marriage. Spenser is very methodical in his depiction of time as it passes‚ both in the accurate chronological sense and in the subjective sense of time as felt by those waiting in anticipation or
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Both Spenser ’s Sonnet 75 and Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 19 similarly claim to bestow immortality upon the beloved. Despite similar themes‚ however‚ these sonnets contrast sharply. Spenser ’s sonnet ostensibly reports a conversation between the poet and his beloved‚ whereas Shakespeare ’s sonnet directly addresses personified time‚ and shows the greater dramatic flair. Spenser ’s first two words‚ "One day"‚ eschew drama by setting his poem in a vague and unparticularised past. Line 1 tells
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determined to set up a safe and stable government. During Queen Elizabeth’s forty-five year reign‚ England prospered considerably. Her reign witnessed a wide increase in literacy and achievements in the arts. Famous writers such as Shakespeare‚ Edmund Spenser‚ and Christopher Marlowe emerged. England also expanded significantly overseas. Elizabeth encouraged explorers like Sir Walter Raleigh‚ Sir Francis Drake‚ and Sir John Hawkins. Her sponsorship of explorers like these led to the establishment of
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The sonnet tradition‚ Selected sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Week IV: Sonnet tradition continued‚ Renaissance lyrics and replies‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ Sir Walter Raleigh Week V : Renaissance ideas about poetry‚ the pastoral tradition and the mythological-erotic convention Week VI: November 9 2011‚ No class‚ Bayram holiday) Week VII: Sidney‚ “An Apology for Poetry”‚ Spenser‚ From Shapheardes Calendar‚ October Eclogue‚ Christopher Marlowe
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Since the beginning of time‚ love has been a concept that always fascinated those who were blessed with a literary talent. Love was also inter-tangled with religion‚ and it took many years to break free of that association. In a predominately male society‚ women were represented in literature by the only female role models at this time; Mary or Eve. The Mary was an unrealistic role model because she symbolized motherhood and purity. Eve was an evil interpretation of women‚ as she damned humanity
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FAMOUS WRITERS WORKS Caedmon and Cynewulf. Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales‚ Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess‚ The House of Fame‚ The Parliament of Fowles‚ The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ‚Truth‚ Gentilesse‚ Merciles Beaute‚ Lak of Stedfastnesse‚ Against Women Unconstant Thomas Malory’s (1405-1471) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia‚ The History
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Closer Look at Spenser While reading the book‚ Early Autumn‚ by Robert Parker‚ I liked many of Spenser’s qualities that he showed throughout the book. He made sure that he didn’t leave Mel’s house without Paul‚ he made Paul stay with him instead of his mom to keep him safe‚ and he got Paul into shape and away from the TV. During the book‚ I liked how Spenser handled trading Paul for his mother. I also liked how he disciplined Paul‚ and changed his outlook on life. I think Spenser is a character
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who died of fever at age 39‚ Henry Howard the Earl of Surrey who was beheaded at age 30‚ Sir Francis Bacon who died of bronchitis at age 65‚ Sir Walter Raleigh who was beheaded at age 66‚ Christopher Marlowe who died in a bar fight at age 29‚ Edmund Spenser who died at age 47‚ Sir Philip Sydney who died from an old battle wound at age 32‚ and William Shakespeare who died at age 52 (Metaphysical). With the short life span in the Renaissance era‚ writers such as Christopher Marlowe‚ Robert Herrick
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