Elizabethan to Enlightenment

Question 1

When was the Elizabethan age

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What war occurred in the century before the Elizabethan age, installing the Tudors as monarchy?

Answer 2

The war of the Roses

Question 3

When did the Tudors reign

Answer 3

1485-1603

Question 4

What ended with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement?

Answer 4

The English Reformation, laying the foundations for the future of the Church of England (Anglican Church)

Question 5

Where does the term ‘sonnet’ come from?

Answer 5

Italian ‘sonneto’ meaning ‘little song’

Question 6

Where does the sonnet originate?

Answer 6

13th century Italy

Question 7

What is a sonnet?

Answer 7

A 14 line poem following a specific rhyme scheme and structure

Question 8

What is the English/Shakespearean sonnet?

Answer 8

Written in iambic pentameter
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Three alternating quatrains and one couplet

Question 9

What form flourished in Elizabethan times, supported by both the common people and the royal court?

Answer 9

English theatre

Question 10

Name some Elizabethan playwrights

Answer 10

Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker

Question 11

Which form of poetry experienced a surge in the Elizabethan era?

Answer 11

The epic

Question 12

Who wrote The Faerie Queen

Answer 12

Edmund Spencer

Question 13

Who wrote Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Answer 13

Milton

Question 14

What was the Enlightenment

Answer 14

An intellectual and philosophical movement which swept across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries

Question 15

What revolution preceded the Enlightenment

Answer 15

The Scientific Revolution

Question 16

What values were central to the Enlightenment

Answer 16

reason, happiness, liberty, progress knowledge, religious tolerance and a rejection of absolute monarchy and religious dogma

Question 17

Who said “I think, therefore I am”

Answer 17

Rene Descartes

Question 18

Note some prominent French thinkers of the Enlightenment

Answer 18

Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Diderot

Question 19

Where were enlightenment ideas shared

Answer 19

Scientific academy meeting, literary salons and in coffeehouses, through print publications including books, journals and pamphlets

Question 20

Who composed the Encyclopedie

Answer 20

Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d’Albert and 150 other scholars

Question 21

Name some important contributors to the Enlightenment movement

Answer 21

Jean-Jaque Rousseau
John Locke
David Hume
Mary Wollstonecraft
Immanuel Kant

Question 22

When did Shakespeare live

Answer 22

1564-1616

Question 23

What was the name of the son who inspired Hamlet

Answer 23

Hamnet

Question 24

What style is John Donne credited with being the father of

Answer 24

Metaphysical conceit

Question 25

What is metaphysical conceit

Answer 25

an extended metaphor bringing together two completely opposite ideas into a single thought, usually through imagery

Question 26

Who, in the Elizabethan period, was the first woman to assert herself as a professional poet

Answer 26

Emilia Lanier

Question 27

Who wrote the collection of poems Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Answer 27

Emilia Lanier

Question 28

Who was the first person to translate Euripides into English

Answer 28

Jane Lumley

Question 29

What is considered the first original play by an Englishwoman

Answer 29

Elizabeth Cary - The Tragedy of Mariam