Context / History
Originating in Italy, this is a 14th century intellectual movement that focused on the potential and place of mankind in nature.
What is Renaissance humanism?
The character in The Heptameron that is supposed to stand in for (or be closest to) Marguerite de Navarre.
Who is Parlaimente?
A paternal set of instructions to pursue an education, including lessons in language, science, and politics.
The men present when the ghost first appears.
Who are Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo?
"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day / All in the morning, the time / And I, a maid at your window, / To be your Valentine. / Then up he rose, and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber-door; / Let in the maid, that out a maid / Never departed more."
From Hamlet, what is Ophelia's mad song to Claudius?
A type of theatre that appealed to secular ideas, and adapted plots from literary and historical texts (as opposed to purely Biblical influences).
What is Renaissance drama?
The stories must be true.
What is a basic condition given to the travelers that must apply to every story told?
A concept represented by Gargantua's Abbey of Theleme.
What is a utopia?
This fictional character and his historical counterpart both married their brothers' widows.
Who are King Henry VIII and King Claudius?
"Honor and praise / Fill all our days: / We sing delight / All day, all night: / These are our ways: / Honor and praise."
What is the inscription on the gate of the Abbey of Theleme from Gargantua and Pantagruel?
An author and admirer of Francois Rebelais. The third book of Gargantua and Pantagruel was dedicated to her.
Marguerite de Navarre
The original owner of Sendras's newly-acquired ring.
Who is Bornet's wife?
A scene that satirizes both vernacular language, and the incomprehensibility of Latin as the language of "high" academics.
What is Pantagruel and Panurge's "hand gesture" debate?
The failure of the marriage plot.
What is a Shakespearean tragedy?
"...If the whole foundation on which our love is based should collapse, then love will fly from us and there will be no love left in us. But I am utterly convinced that if a man loves with no other aim, no other desire, then to love truly, he will abandon his soul in death rather than allow his love to abandon his heart."
What is a speech from Dagoucin to his fellow travelers as a reaction to the Bornet story in The Haptameron?
Audience members who stood on the floor of Elizabethan theaters, closest to the stage.
Who are groundlings?
A literal and figurative structure referenced in the Heptameron, on which the travelers would move from a religious environment to a secular environment.
What is the bridge?
The motto for living in the Abbey of Theleme.
What is "do what you will"?
Where Hamlet's father is trapped in the afterlife.
What is purgatory?
"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, / I will be brief. Your noble son is mad: / Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, / What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
From Hamlet, what is Polonius's speech to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude?
A quality attributed to satirical writings known for their earthy humor and affirmation of humanist values; also, bawdy or vulgar.
What is Rebelasian?
A word used in multiple senses, meaning both "manly courage and strength," and "behavior displaying high moral standards."
What is virtue?
Name meaning "thirsty."
What is Pantagruel?
Often confused for love, as in the case of Hamlet's behavior and Ophelia's suicide.
What is madness?
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed, I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning. quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that."
What is the speech made from Hamlet to Horatio at the grave of Yorick and Ophelia?