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Renaissance:

The historical background


1. It's a period after middle ages.
2. It began in Italy in 14th century, and continued in
west Europe in 15th and 16th centuries finally reached
England in 16th century.
3. The arts of architecture, painting, sculpture and
literature developed through this period.
The ideology of this period
1. It's the birth of modern era.
2. It's the ashes of Dark Age.
3. It's the period of discovering (man. Word).
4. It’s the age of individualism.

Jacobean age:
1. It's a period of King James (Jacob in Latin).
2. It's a period of prose writing of Bacon, Donne's,
sermons, King James the translation of the bible.
3. It's a period of Shakespeare's tragedies and tragic-
comedies.
4. The major writer of this period (Ben Jason, John
Dryden and Donne.

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Elizabethan age:
Problems:
1. She came to the throne by age of 25.
2. She became queen in a difficult time because:
a. War with France.
b. Empty treasury.
c. Heavy taxes.
d. Great deal of poverty.
Solutions (The Features)
1. She made peace with France.
2. In religious matters, she allied with Protestants, but
she tried to unite English people within one church.
3. She allowed Protestants refugees to carry their
trades.
4. She encouraged sea voyages for finding new lands
and works for English men.

Sonnet: It's a lyric of stanza form, consists of fourteen


iambic pentameter lines.

Lyric: It's originally a song, and it’s often expresses the


poet's feeling and thoughts.

Blank Verse: It's five foot iambic unrhymed verse, it


was used by poet playwrights of Elizabethan age.

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Types of Sonnets:
1. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet: It's divided by a
pause into Octave and Sestet.
Octave: consists of two quatrains rhyming (abba,
abba)
Sestet: consists of one tercet rhyming (cd cd cd or
cde cde)
2. English or Shakespearean sonnet: consists of
three quatrains and a concluding couplet rhyming
( abab, bcbc, efef, gg).
3. Link Sonnet: It's called link because it links Octave
and Sestet and concluding with unindependent
rhymed couplet, the rhymes scheme is (abab bcbc
cdcd ee).
4. Miltonic Sonnet: It has Italian scheme, but there is
no significant brake in meaning between Octave
and Sestet.

What is Sonnet: What is lyric:


1. It's a lyric of stanza 1. It's a song
form 2. It expresses poet's
2. It's a 14 lines feeling and
3. It's iambic thoughts
4. It's rhymed

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Sonnet Sequence: It's a collection of sonnets with
the same theme, it's originated by Sir Philip
Sidney.

The difference between Shakespearean &


Renaissance Sonnets: Shakespeare describes his
beloved in a real way without exaggeration, but
in Renaissance the beloved is described with
exaggeration and the women idealized.

Courtly love:
1. It deals with the topic of medieval literature
(Poetry).
2. Its chivalric and a product of 12th century in
France.
3. The women of this love is idealized (pure,
sinless, angelical) whose love enables the lover
to think about:
a. Mind unification.
b. Body unification.
c. This love ought not to be apparent.

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Predominant Themes of Renaissance

1. Courtly love tradition: this expression is very


popular. The poets usually deal with the theme of
love. In this kind of love, the lover is always
deserted and suffered from the carelessness of his
beloved, that is why we find him in a critical
situation, belittling himself and begging to come
back. With this features we have some other
related themes such as humility, and infidelity of
the mistress and idealization.
2. The theme of time: time in Renaissance as a
theme undergoes a twofold treatment, the first
one can be seen in the idea of Carpediem (In
which the poet focuses on the idea that time is
passing and man needs to make use of it. It deals
with time as a source of pleasure). The other
treatment of time can be seen more positively in
the fact that time should be used for gaining
experience in life and it deals with time for the
sake teaching and instruction.

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