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- 1. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE PREPARED BY:JENNEL J. BERNIL, LPT
- 2. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH (1500-1700) •King James Bible • Introduction of the PRINTING PRESS to London.
- 3. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TIMELINE 15001525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1500-1660) ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1558-1603) JACOBEAN PERIOD (1603- 1625) REFORMATION PERIOD (1625-1660) RESTORATION AGE (1660-1700) CAROLINE AGE (1625- 1649) INTER- REGNUM (1649- 1660)
- 4. ENGLISH RENAISSANCE • Culturaland Artistic Movement • Era of Discovery • Exploration and Exploitation
- 5. English Renaissance hitters: • TheJOHNS ( Milton and Donne) • Francis Bacon • Christopher Marlowe • William Shakespeare LET US DIVE IN TO THE VAST SEA OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE!!!
- 6. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1558-1603) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS THOMAS SACKVILLE POET Gorboduc (Collaborated with Thomas Norton) THOMAS NORTON POET Gorboduc (Collaborated with Thomas Sackville) EDMUND SPENSER POET The Faerie Queene The Shepheardes Calendar
- 7. SYNOPSIS: At the play'sbeginning, the argument gives the following summary of the play's action:"Gorboduc, King of Britain, divided his realm in his lifetime to his sons, Ferrex and Porrex. The sons fell to dissension. The younger killed the elder. The mother that more dearly loved the elder, for revenge killed the younger. The people, moved with the cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion and slew both father and mother. The nobility assembled and most terribly destroyed the rebels. And afterward for want of issue of the prince, whereby the succession of the crown became uncertain, they fell to civil war in which both they and many of their issues were slain, and the land for a long time almost desolate and miserably wasted.
- 8. SYNOPSIS: The sons fellto dissension. The younger killed the elder. The mother that more dearly loved the elder, for revenge killed the younger. The people, moved with the cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion and slew both father and mother.
- 9. SYNOPSIS: The nobility assembledand most terribly destroyed the rebels. And afterward for want of issue of the prince, whereby the succession of the crown became uncertain, they fell to civil war in which both they and many of their issues were slain, and the land for a long time almost desolate and miserably wasted.
- 10. THE FAERIE QUEENE •The Faerie Queene an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor and Elizabeth I. • Incomplete English epic poem. • Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. • It is one of the longest poems in the English language and the origin of a verse form that came to be known as Spenserian Stanza.
- 11. • SPENSERIAN STANZA •A stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter and an alexandrine. • RHYME SCHEME: ababbcbcc
- 12. • This example isthe first stanza from Spenser's “THE FAERIE QUEENE” Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; Whose prayses having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.
- 13. THEMES: • Abuses ofthe church • Colin's shattered love for Rosalind • Praise for Queen Elizabeth • Encomia to the rustic Shepherd’s life
- 14. FACTS: • Each eclogueis preceded by a woodcut and followed by a motto describing the speaker. • The opening line of each eclogue expresses characteristics of the month, and the poem as a whole charts common accuracy of the seasons, the toil and celebrations of the village year
- 15. FACTS: January pastoral tells ofthe unhappy love of Colin for Rosalind. The springtime of April calls for a song in praise of Elizabeth.
- 16. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1558-1603) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS THOMAS WYATT POET Introduced Sonnet into English Literature SIR PHILIP SIDNEY POET Astrophil and Stella
- 17. FACTS: • English sonnetsequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. • The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover) • The Latin word 'stella' meaning star. • Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and Stella is his star.
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- 19. SONNET 1: Loving intruth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain: Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain: Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, 'Fool' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'
- 20. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1558-1603) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE POET, DRAMATIST Passionate Shepherd to his Love SIR WALTER RALEIGH POET, HISTORIAN The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
- 23. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1558-1603) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE POET, PLAYWRIGHT The Comedy of Errors A Midsummer’s night Dream As You Like It Twelfth Night
- 24. THE COMEDY OFERRORS • Shortest and one of his most farcical comedies. • It has only 1,756 lines. • It tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth.
- 25. THE COMEDY OFERRORS• • Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse – twin brothers, sons of Egeon and Emilia. • Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse – twin brothers, each serving his respective Antipholus
- 26. THE COMEDY OFERRORS• • Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus. • When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins: • A series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings • A near-seduction • The arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, • and false accusations of infidelity, theft and madness.
- 27. JACOBEAN PERIOD (1603-1625) • Whyis it “JACOBEAN”? • From Latin ‘JACOBUS’ meaning ‘JAMES’ • Period of visual and literary arts during the reign of JAMES I of England.
- 28. JACOBEAN PERIOD (1603-1625) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE POET King Lear The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tempest BENJAMIN “BEN” JONSON PLAYWRIGHT, POET Song To Celia The Masque of Blackness
- 29. KING LEAR CHARACTERS: 1. Lear– King of Britain 2. Goneril – eldest daughter 3. Regan – second 4. Cordelia – youngest 5. King of France – suitor and later husband of Cordelia 6. Albany – Goneril’s husband 7. Cornwall – Regan’s husband 8. Gloucester 9. Kent – a loyal nobleman in disguise 10. Fool – Lear’s Fool 11. Edgar – Gloucester’s son 12. Edmund – Gloucester’s illegitimate son
- 32. REFORMATION PERIOD (1625-1660) • CENSORSHIP •THE LICENSING ORDER OF 1643 instituted pre- publication censorship which impacted everything from religious to political pamphlets to poetry and works of fiction. • Such literature would then be destroyed and writers, printers and publishers accused of distributing it could be arrested and imprisoned.
- 33. REFORMATION PERIOD (1625-1660) • CAROLINEAGE (1625-1649) • Why is it called Caroline? • Because during this era was the reign of Charles I • ‘CAROLUS’ being Latin for “CHARLES”.
- 34. CAROLINE AGE (1625-1649) METAPHYSICAL POETS CAVALIER POETSTRIBE OF BEN • John Donne • George Herbert • Henry Vaughn • Andrew Marvell • Emilia Lanier • Robert Herrick • Richard Lovelace • Thomas Carew • Sir John Suckling • Richard Brome • Thomas Nabbes • Henry Glapthorne • Sir William Davenant • William Cavendish
- 35. RESTORATION AGE (1660-1700) • CharlesII of England became King in 1660. • The period witnessed news become a commodity. • The Essay develop into a periodical art form • The beginnings of textual criticism
- 36. RESTORATION AGE (1660-1700) WRITER ROLEMAJOR WORKS JOHN MILTON POET Paradise Lost JOHN DRYDEN POET, DRAMATIST, LITERARY CRITIC Annus Mirabilis
- 37. It's great tohave all these new discoveries in science and travel and art. But it's LITERATURE that helps you find a foothold as everything is changing around you. A HEART. A CENTER THAT CAN HOLD. when Milton explores guilt and blame, when Shakespeare evaluates forgiveness, when John Donne challenges death, and Ben Jonson examines immortality, These authors help us to see the world, and ourselves, more clearly.
- 38. • Let’s sharesentiments about Literature! jenneljordanbernil16.blogspot.com