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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Renaissance period, including the rebirth of interest in classical antiquity which led to innovations like the printing press and discoveries like the New World. It also discusses humanism and the emphasis on free thinking inspired by scholars like Erasmus, as well as the Protestant Reformation. The arts flourished with new genres like prose, translations of texts, and the rise of theaters and playwrights like Marlowe. Poetry evolved forms like blank verse through authors such as Edmund Spenser.

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    The Renaissance

    Rebirth of interest in classical antiquity


    2 inventions: - invention of movable block printing
    - discovery of the new world
    - Renaissance Giorgio Vasari (an artist is a creator, not a maker)
    - England: English renaissance 1509-1660
    Humanism: New learning Erasmus (Dutch scholar) (1509)
    - the use of Ciceros Latin
    - the study of Greek and Hebrew
    - the publication, editing and commentary of classical authors
    - turning from rigid systems to free, creative thinking
    (this idea led to reformation)
    Reformation:
    - 2 developments: - economic
    - discovery of new order in the cosmos
    Science and literature required new language.
    PROSE
    - taught Cicero and Seneca
    - no prose fiction in our sense
    TRANSLATIONS
    - the Bible and other texts with the same influence
    - Montaignes essays
    THEATRE
    - drama is the most important for the Renaissance
    - ancestors: - miracle plays
    - morality plays (Everyman)
    - Gorboduc by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville 1st English tragedy
    - Inns: places for performances
    actors only, no actresses
    no decoration, but coloured clothes
    travelling companies under patronage
    - 1576: first outdoor theatre in London
    - Christopher Marlowe
    - Tamburlaine (power)
    - The Jew of Malta (richness)
    - Doctor Faustus (desire for knowledge)
    FORM OF VERSE
    - Edmund Spencer: the establisher of modern versification, artist of form
    - The Shepherds Calendar
    - The Faerie Queen
    - Main aim: parallel between form and content
    - blank verse, free language

    Renaissance
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    What is the word renaissance?


    The Middle Ages: decadence, corruption, superstition
    Renaissance: return of classical antiquity.
    Comedy, tragedy
    Mythological references to the gods and myths of antiquity.
    Romantic love

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