The Elizabethan Age

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The Elizabethan Age

• Early Modern Age
• Renaissance- Rebirth, Revival

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Renaissance

• The Renaissance period is markedly by the
  rediscovery and study of the classics of ancient
  Greece and Rome, by challenge feudal obscurantism
  (n.????, ????) and religious dogmas, by opposing
  the tyranny of feudal rules.

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• Humanism was the keynote of the renaissance,
  reflecting the new outlook of the rising
  bourgeois class.

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• Against the medieval feudal value and blind faith
  in after-life, the humanists believed in mans
  capability of self -perfection and emphasized the
  importance of personal worth and the joy of the
  present life.

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in
  reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and
  moving, how express and admirable in action, how
  like an angle in apprehension, how like a god!
  The beauty of the world the paragon of animals
  and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust ?
• - William Shakespeare

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• the King James Bible, or the Authorized
  Version, 47 translators, over 10 years,
  published in 1611

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English Literature in the Renaissance Period

• Poem England- a nest of singing birds
• Edmund Spenser the poets poet
• The Faerie Queene
• Drama the age of William Shakespeare
• predecessor Christopher Marlowe
• Tamburlaine the Great
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• Ben Jonson

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Study Questions

1. Is marriage an impediment or help to ones career
   development ?
2. In what sense are wife and children a kind of
   discipline of humanity ?
3. Does Bacon prefer marriage or single life? Do you
   find his arguments convincing?

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Quotation Discussion

• Wives are young mens mistresses, companions
  for middle age, and old mens nurses. ?
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• bad husbands have very good wives
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