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BRIT LIT
Renaissance background Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does Renaissance mean | rebirth |
| when was the Renaissance era | between 15th and early 17th centuries |
| where was the Renaissance era | began is Italy and over time spread to the rest of Europe |
| humanism | devotion to Greek and Latin |
| what did people in Renaissance look for instead of looking toward authority for answers | they looked toward individual conscience |
| what created protestant revolution | humanism and looking inward for answers |
| who invented printing press and what did it cause | Johannes gutenberg people challenging authority and thinking for themselves |
| Henry VII | 1st monarch of tudor dynasty rebuilt nation's treasury established strong central government made commercial treaties built fleet of merchant ships began to explore North America |
| Henry VIII | increased power of monarchy wanted annulment to produce male heir, pope said no, so he created his own church |
| Martin Luther | 95 theses protestant revolution |
| John calvin | predestination |
| Mary I | attempted to bring power back to Roman Catholic church married to Phillip II Bloody Mary |
| Elizabeth I | england became most powerful nation in Europe English literature reached its peak navy became foundation of English power reestablished the monarch as head of church of england ended persecution of protestants |
| James I | first of Stuart kings was protestant with Catholic sympathies and detested radical protestants built Jamestown believed in Divine Right of Kings |
| puritans | people who wished to purify the church of england by removing all vestiges of Roman Catholic ritual radical protestants |
| types of medieval plays (3) | miracle plays mystery plays morality plays |
| Structure of 5 act play | introduction rising action crisis falling action resolution or catastrophe |
| introduction | present settings and main characters |
| rising action | develops central conflict |
| crisis | presents a decisive occurrence that determines rest of event in play |
| falling action | presents events that happen as a result of crisis |
| resolution or catastrophe | presents action that resolves or ends the central conflict |
| types of Renaissance drama (6) | comedies tragedy histories romances interludes masques |
| comedies | lighthearted and may contain serious action and themes uses puns, wordplay, and coarse or exaggerated characters |
| tragedies | story of the down fall of a person in high status protagonist has tragic flaw celebrates courage and dignity of protagonist in the face of inevitable doom |
| histories | plays about events from the past |
| romances | plays that contain elements such as fairies and magic |
| interludes | Short plays |
| masques | featured acting, music, and dance |
| Mayor and aldermen | frowned upon theater fear of lawlessness, spreads of controversial ideas and disease |
| who couldn't act | women female roles were played by men |
| globe theater | octagonal center was open air poor people sat close to stage while rich sat along the walls |
| what happened to the globe theater | cannon burned it to the ground |
| who saw the plays at the globe | all classes of people |
| Marlowe | revitalizes English theater promoted blank verse blends of comedy and tragedy liked to explain character psyche |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Shakespeare | greatest dramatist of all time multiple troop names: the Lord chamberlain's men and the kings men |
| Shakespeare's plays | did not publish his own plays they were illegally published quartos were often unreliable due to memories |
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stella_koe
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