1. Stephanie Artavia Moscoso
Lisa Matamoros Martin
Carmen Guillén Alvarado

2. beginnings
• Italy, 14th century.
• Rising from a darker
age.
• Rebirth:
and hope.
awakening
• Humanity
progressing.
was

3. • Greater commerce and
trade.
• People traveled
around the world.
• Products, wealth,
ideas spread.
more
and
• Rebirth of passion and
creativity, impacting the
world.

4. Humanism
• Mankind was believed
capable of earthly
perfection beyond
what had ever been
imagined before.

5. • English Renaissance:
1500-1660.
• Economic growth.
• Nationalism .
• London became a
metropolis.
• England went from
barbaric to a

6. The printing
press
• The
single
greatest
innovation
of
the
Renaissance
era.
• Changed
the
world of arts
and letters.
• Helped expand

7. • It rivals anything else
of the period.
• Greatest works of
literature the world has
known.
• The
spirit
of
optimism,
unlimited
potential, and the stoic
English.

8. • From a “barbarian” nation to a seat of
commercial power and influence.
• It translated into a literature that was
bold, sweeping, innovative, and trendsetting.
• Poets experimented with form, and
dramatists revived and reinvented the
classical traditions of the Greeks and
Romans.

10. • Varieties of poetry:
 Lyric
Elegy
Tragedy
Pastoral
Near
the
close
of
the
English
Renaissance, John Milton composed his epic
Paradise Lost, widely considered the
grandest poem in the language

11. • Drama
• William Shakespeare : variety, profundity,
and exquisite use of language.
• The theatre became a bona fide cultural
institution.

12. Important!
• Translation of the bible

13. Theend
• The quest for human perfection had given
way to decadence, cynicism, and an
introversion which would stifle creativity.
• The rise of Puritanism.
• Failure of Queen Elizabeth to produce an
heir.

14. Authors

16. • 1564-1616
• English poet and playwright .
• 154 Sonnets.
• Nine tragedies: Othello, Romeo and
Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth.
• 38 plays.

17. Impact on
literature
• Powerful language.
• Understanding of
human nature.
• Expanded dramatic
potencial.

19. • 1552-1599
•
Most influential poets of the Elizabethan
Age.
• Poets' Poet
• The Faerie Queene: an epic poem and
fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor
dynasty and Elizabeth I.