The English Renaissance

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The English Renaissance

• Menegazzo Giulia Pellis Giulia

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A PROFOUND CHANGE

• End of 15th century
• England experienced a profound change
• 1485 Wars of the Roses come to an end
• 1474 Birth of Modern English as a language
• 1492 ? Columbus discovered America
• The globe was circumnavigated
• Copernicus denied the Earth s central position
  within the universe.
• Discoveries of science, explorations,
  developments in art, philosophy and learning
  challenged
• the old order of ideas
• society and individuals moved radically away from
  medieval beliefs
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• new society was based on trade and commerce.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH I

• The English Renissance linked to
• consolidation of the Tudor dynasty
• reign of Elizabeth I.
• England needed political stability ELIZABETH I
• powerful monarch
• undertook masculine respontability
• society with a limited role of woman

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RELIGION IN THE RENAISSANCE

• religious devotion declined
• more emphasis on human place on earth
• adverse factors to the church's influence.
• rebirth of thought.
• personal views and opinions of the world
• questioning Church and Popes authority 
• Henry VIIIs Reformation changed Englands
  religious life
• England became Protestant and independent
• Henry VIII became Head of both The Church and
  The State.

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THE RIBIRTH OF CLASSICAL CULTURE

• Literature, music and art inspired by
• Italian models
• central position of the man
• Humans beings to be considered not only for
  their soul but for their human qualities
• rebirth of culture ? art moved from the Gothic
  style to other kinds of artistic movements.
• Central theme of Elizabethan ? the clash between
  the individual and social order.
• Medieval literature showing ? God s designs,
  Drama in the Renaissance ? focused on man.
• new necessities were born
• people needed to put the human body in a relevant
  position
• conflict between soul and body.

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF DRAMA

• Christopher Marlowe ,Robert Greene,Thomas Nashe ?
  new life to classical models making drama
  appealing to a larger audience.
• Shakespeare ? deep knowledge of the human heart
• life at the centre of investigation
• theatre ? the most important and popular literary
  form of the period.
• Poetry ? more personal and private,
• lyricism and beauty of sonnets .
• John Donne and George Herbert the most
  sognificant metaphysical poets
• very innovative poets
• Themes ? religion and love
• language ? t could be violent, direct and complex.

William Shakespeare
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• THE AGE OF QUESTIONS

• The Renaissance meant
• a re-awakening,
• a rebirth of thought
• people took up their own views and opinions of
  the world
• people began questioning the authority of The
  Church and the Pope.
• New ideas were adopted from Italy
• The ideal of harmony of mind and body
• the humanist ideals of the spirit
• the example of B. Castiglione

Castiglione Baldassarre