Elizabethan to Enlightenment Flashcards
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When was the Elizabethan age
Height of the English renaissance, marked by the reign of Elizabeth I from 1558-1603, often referred to as the ‘golden age’ of English history
What war occurred in the century before the Elizabethan age, installing the Tudors as monarchy?
The war of the Roses
When did the Tudors reign
1485-1603
What ended with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement?
The English Reformation, laying the foundations for the future of the Church of England (Anglican Church)
Where does the term ‘sonnet’ come from?
Italian ‘sonneto’ meaning ‘little song’
Where does the sonnet originate?
13th century Italy
What is a sonnet?
A 14 line poem following a specific rhyme scheme and structure
What is the English/Shakespearean sonnet?
Written in iambic pentameter
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Three alternating quatrains and one couplet
What form flourished in Elizabethan times, supported by both the common people and the royal court?
English theatre
Name some Elizabethan playwrights
Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker
Which form of poetry experienced a surge in the Elizabethan era?
The epic
Who wrote The Faerie Queen
Edmund Spencer
Who wrote Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Milton
What was the Enlightenment
An intellectual and philosophical movement which swept across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries
What revolution preceded the Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
What values were central to the Enlightenment
reason, happiness, liberty, progress knowledge, religious tolerance and a rejection of absolute monarchy and religious dogma
Who said “I think, therefore I am”
Rene Descartes
Note some prominent French thinkers of the Enlightenment
Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Diderot
Where were enlightenment ideas shared
Scientific academy meeting, literary salons and in coffeehouses, through print publications including books, journals and pamphlets
Who composed the Encyclopedie
Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d’Albert and 150 other scholars
Name some important contributors to the Enlightenment movement
Jean-Jaque Rousseau
John Locke
David Hume
Mary Wollstonecraft
Immanuel Kant
When did Shakespeare live
1564-1616
What was the name of the son who inspired Hamlet
Hamnet
What style is John Donne credited with being the father of
Metaphysical conceit
