Authors Chiari

Question 1

John heywood ( 1497)

Answer 1

• interlude
  Works :
• the play of the wether - 1533
• a play of love - 1533
  Wytty and wytless — 1533

Question 2

2 examples of modern style moralities

Answer 2

John Skelton — magnificence 1516

John Redford — Play of wit and science

Question 3

The first English comedy of the classical school

Answer 3

Ralph Roister Doister by Nicolas Udall — 1553

Question 4

The tragedy

Answer 4

1562 — Gorboduc — Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

Shakespeare — Hamlet

Question 5

Humanism represented by

Answer 5

• Sir Thomas More
• Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
  Michel de Montaigne

Question 6

The poem published in anthologies

Answer 6

• Richard tottel — Songs and Sonnets — miscellany

Question 7

Major poets of Elizabethan age + oeuvre

Answer 7

• Sir Philip Sidney (1554) : Astrophel and Stella
• Edmund Spenser (1552): The Faerie queen — 1591
• William Shakespeare (1564): Venus and Adonis

Question 8

Jacobean playwrights - Ben Jonson

Answer 8

Born 1572
- every man in his humour ( 1598)
- Volpone ( 1605)
- epicoene, or the silent woman - 1609
- the alchemist - 1610
- Bartholomew Fair — 1614

Question 9

Jacobean playwrights - Beaumont and Fletcher

Answer 9

• the knight of the Burning Pestle - 1607
• Philaster, or love lies a-bleeding —- 1608
• the maid’s tragedy — 1619

Collab with Shakespeare:
- Henry VIII — 1613
- The two Noble Kinsmen — 1634

Question 10

Jacobean : satires and tragicomedies : John Martson

Answer 10

• the Malcontent — (1604)
• Eastward Ho — 1605

Question 11

Jacobean: satire and tragocomedies — Thomas Middleton

Answer 11

• Michaelmas Term And trick to catch the old one —- intrigue comedies
• the Roaring girl — social comédie
• women beware women — 1657
• the changeling — 1622
  A Game at chess — 1624

Question 12

Songbooks in 1596

Answer 12

William barley — A new Book of Tablature

Question 13

Shakespeare predecessors

Answer 13

• John Lyly (1554) : compaspe (1580s)
• gorge peele (1558) : Edward I — the arraignment of Paris
• Arden of faversham : Arden of faversham
• Thomas kyd (1558) : the Spanish tragedy (1580s)
• Christopher Marlowe (1564) : the massacre of Paris (1590s) — Tamburlaine (1580s)
• Robert greene (1558): looking glass for London and England

Question 14

William shakespeare

Answer 14

1564 — strong education
Actor and playwright
In the histories : famous plays
1st tetralogy: Henry VI — Richard III

2nd tetralogy: Richard III — 1&2 Henry IV — Henry V

Question 15

Plot structure of comedies — Shakespeare

Answer 15

1. Exposition
2. Rising action
3. Turning point
4. Failing action
5. Resolution ou conclusion

Question 16

Major Tragédies de shakespeare

Answer 16

• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello
• King Lear

Question 17

Other tragedies

Answer 17

• Roméo and Juliet
• Caesar Julius
• Anthony
• cleopatra
• Coriolanus

Question 18

Shakespeare romance

Answer 18

Blackfriars theatre : 1608
Key plays:
- the winter’s tale
- Cymbeline
- The tempest
- the two noble kinsmen

Question 19

The 1623 first folio

Answer 19

The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,
By John Hemings and Henry condell
Included 36 plays

Question 20

The masques

Answer 20

James I hosted fancy court masques mostly written by Ben Jonson.
These shows focused on spectacles rather than plot with mythological themes, songs, dance.

Question 21

Indigo jones

Answer 21

Designed costumed for the masque of queens.

Question 22

Jacobean playwrights :

Answer 22

• Ben Jonson (1572) : every man in his humour (1598)
  Major works: volpone - the alchemist
• Beaumont and fletcher: the knight of the burning pestle
• John marston : the malcontent
• Thomas Middleton : the roaring girl - women beware women

Question 23

Beaumont and fletcher en collab avec shakespeare

Answer 23

• Henry VIII (1613)
• the two noble kinsmen (1634)

Question 24

Caroline drama

Answer 24

Caroline drama was heavily influenced by past dramatist : sir John suckling
Some playwright from the Jacobean era, like Thomas Haywood.

Question 25

Court masques

Answer 25

Caroline drama is known for its pastorals and elaborate court masques. Where members of royal family including Charles I and queen Henrietta Maria often performed.

Question 26

3 major caroline playwrights

Answer 26

- John ford : ‘Tis pity she’s a whore — the broken heart 💔 - Philip massinger: the Roman actor — a new way to pay old debts - Richard brome: the antipodes and jovial crew.

Question 27

The closing of theatre (1642 - 1660)

Answer 27

Puritan opposition : theatre faced puritan disapproval. - Stephen Gosson : school of abuse - Philip stubbes: the anatomy of abuses - William prynne : Histriomastix

Question 28

The restoration : revival of theatre

Answer 28

Thomas killigrew William Davenant

Question 29

Restoration tragedies

Answer 29

John Dryden : restoration tragedy - the conquest of Granada - aureng-zebe

Question 30

Restoration : comedy of wit

Answer 30

- george etherege: The man of mode, or air Flopling Flutter - William gongreve: The old batchelor

Question 31

Metaphysical poets

Answer 31

- John Donne To his mistress going to bed - George Herbert The temple Any dejected poor soul

Question 32

Paradise in lost (1667)

Answer 32

John Milton — his opposition to the monarchy after the commonwealth’s fall led to imprisonment and a fine under Charles II

Question 33

Victorian age : The pre raphaelites

Answer 33

Were a loose and baggy collective of Victorian poets, paints, illustrators and designers. The work privileged atmosphere and mood over narrative, focusing on medieval subjects.

Question 34

One of the greatest masterpiece of the pre-raphaelites

Answer 34

- Millais “Ophelia”