Diapositiva 1

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The Context
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Culture (1485-1688)

• Humanistic ideals retrieved from ancient Greek
  and Roman cultures
• The court as a center of literary and artistic
  activity
• Expansion of Oxford and Cambridge universities
  initiators of the English Renaissance
• Dominance of theater as prime form of
  entertainment
• Development of church music
• Modern English (from 1500)
• Diffusion of printing, books in English
• Scientific revolution Newton, Royal Society
• Birth of argumentative literature, journalism

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Society

• Anti-Catholic feelings
• Highly cultivated opper and middle classes
• Poverty among the lower classes
• Predominance of Puritans and strict moral values
• Loose morals among the aristocracy after the
  Restoration

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DRAMA
POETRY

• Flourishing of Drama
• Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights Marlowe,
  Shakespeare, Jonson
• Comedy of Manners

• Courtly poetry the sonnet and sonneteers
• Spenser (allegorical poetry)
• Drama and poetry drama in blank verse
• John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets
• Milton (religious epic poetry)

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