The Renaissance
This Italian word meaning “rebirth” gave its name to the European cultural movement of the 14th–17th centuries.
Answer: What is the Renaissance?
This English scholar and statesman wrote Utopia in 1516.
Sir Thomas More
He introduced the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet into English poetry.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
A sonnet is a poem of this many lines.
14 lines
He is considered the greatest playwright of the Elizabethan period and wrote many sonnets.
William Shakespeare
The Renaissance in England is usually divided into three parts: the rise under the early Tudors, the height under this queen, and the decline under the Stuarts.
Who is Elizabeth?
This English scholar and statesman wrote Utopia in 1516.More was executed in 1535 for refusing to accept this king as head of the Church of England.
Henry VIII
This poet developed the English (Shakespearean) sonnet form and introduced blank verse.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
The Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet is divided into an octave and this.
sestet
This English queen established schools, promoted education, and oversaw the golden age of English drama.
Elizabeth I
The invention that allowed literature and knowledge to spread rapidly across England after 1476.
What is the printing press?
The word Utopia literally means this in Greek.
“Nowhere”
Both Wyatt and Surrey suffered this fate at the English court.
imprisonment or execution
The English (Shakespearean) sonnet has three quatrains and this final part.
couplet
This first permanent playhouse in London was built in 1576 by James Burbage.
Theatre
The intellectual movement that emphasized human individuality, reason, and learning during the Renaissance.
What is Humanism?
In Utopia, More describes an ideal society with these features: no private property, equal distribution of goods, education for all, and religious tolerance.
perfect or ideal society
After their deaths, their poems were published in this 1557 collection, which helped establish Renaissance poetry in England.
Tottel’s Miscellany
What are they: love, beauty, time, death, and moral conflict.
themes of Renaissance sonnets
These educated playwrights, including Christopher Marlowe and Robert Greene, were known as the.......
University Wits
By 1530, it is estimated that more than half of this population was literate, thanks to new printing technology and schools.
Who are the English people?
This book by More criticizes monarchy, social injustice, and corruption, reflecting Renaissance humanism.
Utopia
Surrey translated parts of this classical epic while experimenting with blank verse.
Virgil’s Aeneid
This is the term for the “turn” or shift between problem and resolution in a Petrarchan sonnet.
volta
The form of unrhymed iambic pentameter introduced by Surrey and later used extensively by Shakespeare in his plays.
blank verse