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Renaissance Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field |
| 1603 | Death of Elizabeth/Rise of James I |
| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople |
| 1517 | Protestant Reformation/Martin Luther nails 95 theses |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt |
| 1348-1350 | Black Death |
| 1492 | Columbus sails |
| 1476 | Printing comes to England |
| 1588 | Attack of the Spanish Armada |
| April 23, 1564 | Shakespeare’s birth |
| April 26, 1564 | Shakespeare’s baptism |
| April 23, 1616 | Shakespeare’s death |
| Richard III | Lost Bosworth Field |
| Henry Tudor/Henry VII | Won Bosworth Field |
| Petrarch | Created sonnet form |
| Boccoccio | Wrote Decameron/influenced Chaucer |
| Giotto | Painter who dealt with perspective |
| Brunelleschi | Architect |
| Raphael | Ninja Turtle/Painter/Sistine Madonna |
| Donatello | Ninja Turtle/Sculptor |
| Lorenzo de Medici | Patron of Renaissance artists |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Painter of Mona Lisa, Last Supper/Inventor |
| Michelangelo | Sculptor of David/Painter of Sistine ceiling |
| Martin Luther | Nailed 95 theses/began Protestant Reformation |
| Gutenberg | Invented moveable-type printing |
| Caxton | Brought printing to England |
| Henry VIII | Renaissance Man |
| Erasmus | Tutored Henry VIII |
| Kathryn of Aragon | Mother of Mary |
| Anne Boleyn | Mother of Elizabeth |
| Jane Seymour | Mother of Edward |
| Cardinal Wolsey | Henry VIII’s church advisor |
| Thomas More | Henry VIII’s secular advisor/wrote Utopia |
| Thomas Cranmer | Henry VIII’s archbishop/gave him his divorce |
| Edward VI | Henry VIII’s son |
| Jane Grey | Queen for ten days after her cousin died |
| Mary I | Blood Queen who persecuted protestants |
| Elizabeth I | “Virgin” Queen |
| Roger Ascham | Tutored Elizabeth |
| Sir Francis Drake | Elizabeth I’s admiral/defeated the Armada |
| James VI/James I | Became King when Elizabeth died |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt | Brought sonnet form to England |
| Sir Edmund Spenser | Created his own sonnet form |
| Sir Philip Sidney | Created sonnet cycle |
| Christopher Marlowe | Contemporary playwright with Shakespeare |
| Goethe | Wrote Faust |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Founded NC |
| William Shakespeare | Author of plays/sonnets/Macbeth |
| John Shakespeare | Shakespeare’s father |
| Mary Arden | Shakespeare’s mother |
| Anne Hathaway | Shakespeare’s wife |
| Susanna, Judith, Hamnet | Shakespeare’s children |
| Stratford upon Avon | Shakespeare’s birthplace |
| Earl of Southampton | Patron of Shakespeare’s poetry |
| Lord Chamberlain | Patron of Shakespeare’s plays |
| Renaissance | Rebirth of the ideas of the Greeks/Romans |
| Constantinople | Fall of this city precipitated renaissance |
| Decameron | Boccaccio’s collection of 100 tales |
| Humanism | Belief that man can do anything |
| Fidei Defensor | Defender of the faith |
| Utopia | Perfect world |
| Spanish Armada | Navy that attacked England in 1588 |
| Tottel’s Miscellany | Collection of sonnets by Wyatt and Howard |
| Sonnetto | Little song |
| Lyric | Short, expressing the thoughts/feelings of single speaker |
| Iambic Pentameter | A pattern of five unstressed and stressed syllables |
| Octave | Eight-line stanza |
| Sestet | Six-line stanza |
| Volta | Dramatic shift in thought |
| Quatrain | Four-line stanza |
| Couplet | Two-line stanza |
| Faerie Queene | Spencer’s love poem for Elizabeth I |
| Apostrophe | Addressing something as if it can respond |
| Amoretti | Little love poems by Spencer |
| Sonnet Cycle | Collection of sonnets for unattainable love |
| Astrophel and Stella | Star lover and star |
| Dr. Faustus | Marlowe’s play about selling one’s soul |
| Faust | Legend in which a man sells his soul to Satan |
| Globe | Shakespeare’s theater |
| King’s Men | Shakespeare’s acting company |
| Macbeth | Shakespeare’s Scottish play (the one we read) |
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dcorley