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The English Renaissance (Key literary figures and texts (Thomas More,…
The English Renaissance
Political developments
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Growth of London as a metropolis - 50,000 in the 1520 --> 200,000 in 1600. Largest city in Europe
Within 3 generations, one of the most Catholic countries in Europe became one of the most anti-Catholic.
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Renaissance Aesthetics
Neoplatonism
Cult of beauty and harmony 
Neoplatonists believed that God created humans in His likeness to encourage us to use our own powers.
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Petrarchism
a style of peotry describing the beauty of a lady and the dispair of the lover in formalised rhetorical figures
the term is derived from the Italian poet, whose sonnets were written in this style.
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Genres
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Pastoral
Literature that celebrates the life of shepherds in the countryside, especially their love life.
Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599)
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Romance
A narrative in verse or prose of chivalry and love. Fantastic, unreal events. Plot: a knight slays monsters for a lady's sake to win her.
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Example of theatrum mundi - the world as a stage:
Walter Raleigh, "what is our life?" (1612)
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