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RENAISSANCE LITERATURE The Age of Shakespeare - Coggle Diagram
RENAISSANCE
LITERATURE
The Age of Shakespeare
CULTURAL MOVEMENT
The search for
individual expression
Humanism: man as an individual
Literature:
new genres and great works
"Rebirth" of Classicism
Press and Literacy:
increment of the reading public
Italy, middle 14th C.
England, late 15th C.
POETRY
Lyric
Sonnet (Wyatt and Surrey; Sydney and Spenser; Shakespeare): Italian models
Metaphysical poets (Donne):
complexity
English language, collections, music
DRAMA
Revival of the Classics
Professional companies of actors
Features:
5 acts, monologues, mix of comic and tragic
Permanent theaters (The Globe)
Ban of theaters by the Puritans (1642-1660)
William Shakespeare
Secular plays
Roman tragedies (Seneca) and comedies (Plauto)
PROSE
New forms
Political:
pamphlet
Philosophical:
essay
Religious:
sermons
Fiction:
romance