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Letteratura inglese III (CALBI) 20/02/2012

Letteratura inglese III (CALBI) 20/02/2012. Key dates and Key words Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism. Wilton Diptych (c.1400). Holbein’s sketch of the More family (1527). Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533, National Gallery, London ). Drama and Re-naissance.

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Letteratura inglese III (CALBI) 20/02/2012

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  1. Letteratura inglese III (CALBI)20/02/2012 • Key dates and Key words • Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism

  2. Wilton Diptych (c.1400)

  3. Holbein’s sketch of the More family (1527)

  4. HansHolbein, The Ambassadors (1533, National Gallery, London )

  5. Drama and Re-naissance • Mystery plays and Moralities • Moralities (Everyman; Good deeds, etc.: abstract types, allegories) • Elizabethan theatre: we move towards highly individualised characters (whether they stress the mystery of interiority [Hamlet], or whether they stress a process of fashioning and re-fashioning of selves (Richard III, Barabbas in The Jew of Malta, Faustus)

  6. Outside versus inside • HAMLET Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.''Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,Nor customary suits of solemn black,Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,For they are actions that a man might play:But I have that within which passeth show;These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  7. Richard III (manipulation of identity) • But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks […] I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty[…] I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my timeInto this breathing world, scarce half made up,[…] I, in this weak piping time of peace,Have no delight to pass away the time,[…] And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,[…] I am determined to prove a villainPlots have I laid, inductions dangerous […].

  8. Figures • From the monk and the knight to the merchant and courtier

  9. Reformation • 1517: Martin Luther’s ‘Theses’ (excommunicated 1521) (attack on church corruption, rejection of sacraments except for Baptism, Eucharist and Confession but with different meanings; predestination and the elect; the Bible) • 1521: Henry VIII’s rejection of Luther (Defensor fidei) • 1524: Erasmus’s attack on Luther (De libero arbitrio) • 1532: John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion • 1534: Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England

  10. THE ACT OF SUPREMACY (1534) • Albeit, the King's Majesty justly and rightfully is and oweth to be the supreme head of the Church of England, and so is recognised by the clergy of this realm in their Convocations; yet nevertheless for corroboration and confirmation thereof, and for increase of virtue in Christ's religion within this realm of England, and to repress and extirp all errors, heresies and other enormities and abuses heretofore used in the same, Be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament that the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia […].

  11. The Reformation (2) • 1547-53: Edward VI (Calvinist influence, publication of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549) • 1553-8 Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) • The Reformation as a ‘permanent revolution’. Movement towards the internalisation of institutions: individual conscience, rather than church hierarchy to mediate between God and man. Radical movement: ‘Puritans’.

  12. Scientific Revolution: Seeing oneself in the world

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