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British Literature 2
The 16th Century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The closet plays of ??? were especially appealing to the Elizabethans because they combined ??? form with moral value while delighting with ??? | Seneca, Classical, horror |
| ??? used Erasmus's Greek New Testament to translate the Bible into English. | William Tyndale |
| A tragedy ends in ??? which reestablishes order | destruction |
| Sir Thomas More | Utopia |
| More's masterpiece offers ??? as a means to perfect the human condition. | reason |
| Roger Ascham | The Schoolmaster |
| While studying at??? University, John Foxe read the Scriptures in ??? and became convinced that they were the final authority in regard to ??? and life | Oxford, Greek, Faith |
| John Foxe | Acts and Monuments or Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder | My Galley, |
| Sir Philip Sidney | Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, The Defense of Poesy |
| Edmund Spenser | The Shepherd's Calendar, The Faerie Queene |
| Mary (Sidney) Herbert | translated Psalms |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, History of the World |
| William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Midsummer's Night Dream, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Sonnets |