Renaissance Thing Part

(Part 1)

I. The Renaissance

A. The Monarchy and the church

1. The Tudors

a. Henry VII (becomes King arranges the marriage between Arthur and the Spanish princess, Arthur died suddenly and Henry married her instead, a terrible decision)

2. The Protestant Reformation

a. The people were mad at the church at the time and wanted things changed

3. The Church of England

a. Henry VIII (starts a new church because he couldn’t divorce and get remarried)

B. The Elizabethan Era

1. Elizabeth I (one of the best monarchs ever, English renascence begins, very popular with the people, a good thing after King Henry VIII and Queen Mary)

            C. Rise of the Stuarts

                        1. Charles I (dismisses Parliament)

            D. The Defeat of the Monarchy

                        1. General Oliver Cromwell leads the revolution and ends the renaissance

                        2. Charles II (Comes back)

II. Cultural Influences

            A. The Renaissance

                        1. The Renaissance World View

a. The people were more interested in earthy life rather than the afterlife

b. They want people to be a jack-of-all-trade instead of being just

focused on one thing

                        2. Creativity and Exploration

                                    a. They were into exploring, the arts, and nature

b. Reading became easier with the invention of the Gutenburg’s printing press                                    

III. Renaissance Literature

            A. Pastoral Poems and Sonnets

                        1. Improving Nature

a. They said not to imitate nature but to “improve” it and incorporate it into their paintings

            B. Shakespearean Drama

                        1. Shakespeare’s Influence

                                    a. This is when Shakespeare wrote 37 plays

                                    b. The Globe Theater was the most famous theater and London had

                                    more theaters than some countries had overall

                                    c. Shakespeare invented words through his writings and is more

                                    like modern day English

                                    d. Stories are still based on his writings

C. The Rise of Humanism

                        1. English Humanists

                                    a. This is when humans invented utopia

b. Important works such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey were translated

D.  Spiritual and Devotional Writing

                        1. King James Bible

                                    a. The first official English Bible was translated based on Hebrew,            

                                    early Latin, and Greek versions and is still in use

                        2. Two Masterpieces

a. Paradise Lost, complicated version of Adam and Eve, was written

b. The Pilgrim’s Progress was more important because more people could understand it as it was simplified

(Part 2)

E. The Metaphysical and Cavalier Poets

                        1. Ben Jonson-Good poet, followers were “Sons of Ben”

2. Cavalier-Royalists and they were kinda like hippies, Metaphysical-were all about the metaphors

                        3. John Donne- Metaphysical poet about love, death, and religion