Historical Events
What invention let to wider-spread literacy and the circulation of pamphlets
The printing press
Who is Thomas Nashe a reminiscent of
A highbrow Dr. Seuss
Who were the two founding figures of New Historicism
Michel Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt
Obiter
Mentioned only briefly, not the main focus
What is something harmless to do instead of gambling, drinking, or getting into crime
Seeing a play
What was the plague outbreak from 1592-1593
The bubonic plague
What was Nashe’s cause of death and place of burial
Unknown
What year did New Historicism emerge
1980
Sophocleo cothurno
Grand, elevated tragic style
Plays show that people who commit this crime get what they deserve
Murder
Elizabethan England is often described as
Golden age
Where was Thomas Nashe born
Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Which institutions shape historical meaning
Religion, law, medicine, and politics
Roscius
Excellence in acting
What is the one thing that plays can give a man on earth that nothing else can
Immortality
From 1585 to 1603, the country was at war in which areas
Netherlands, France, Ireland, and at sea.
What college did Nashe attend
St John’s College in Cambridge
What term refers to tracing how ideas and institutions develop through contingent historical forces rather than inevitable progress
Genealogy
Consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccati
The habit of sinning removes the feeling/sense of sin
Who was the famous actor that could perform more in action than Roscius and Aesop
Ned Alleyn
What year of the London outbreak did Queen Elizabeth have gallows built at the palace, ordering that anyone from London be executed on sight
1564
This pamphlet by Thomas Nashe pretends to appeal directly to the Devil
Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Devil
New Historicism does not treat economics as what
The main force shaping literature
"Nam si foras hostem non habent, domi inuenient"
"For if they do not have an enemy abroad, they will find one at home"
The sin called “child of sloth”
Lechery