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Renaissance: The Rebirth

Renaissance: The Rebirth. Den Syvongsa Saman Haider Mehak Qureshi. Historical Background. Medieval Times. Renaissance. A focus on people (self portraits) Transpired into the poetic nature of Renaissance literature More secular style of writing Invention of the Printing Press.

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Renaissance: The Rebirth

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  1. Renaissance: The Rebirth Den Syvongsa SamanHaider Mehak Qureshi

  2. Historical Background Medieval Times Renaissance A focus on people (self portraits) Transpired into the poetic nature of Renaissance literature More secular style of writing Invention of the Printing Press • Art focused mainly of religious depictions • Discovered middle English • Literature based solely on Religion • Documents reported by scribes

  3. Comparison Between Paintings Renaissance Medieval

  4. Elizabethan Age • Queen Elizabeth loved poetry, music, and drama. Her admirers attempted to please her –which led to the Renaissance era. • Wide spread popularity of plays and poetry • Resulted in the formation of even more poets ( way to make a living instead of a pastime) • Art was used as a form of worship Art was used to appease to people and their sensibilities • Example: The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney

  5. “Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust” Leave me, O love, which reachest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings.Draw in thy beams and humble all thy mightTo that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be;Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light, That both doth shine and give us sight to see.O take fast hold; let that light be thy guideIn this small course which birth draws out to death,And think how evil becometh him to slide, Who seeketh heav’n, and comes out of heav’nly breath.Then Farewell, world; thy uttermost I see:Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me.

  6. Historical Revival • Historical revival was essential during the Renaissance as it is what made literature more prominent • Knowledge being a pastime Knowledge being important • During the Medieval times only Pages could read and write but Renaissance made everyone learn to read and write

  7. Hero and Leander • At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And offer'd as a dower his burning throne, Where she could sit for men to gaze upon. The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; Her wide sleeves green, and border'd with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain,

  8. Religious Turmoil • Individualistic and “riskay” ideas in Renaissance literature • Catholicism being a constant idea in literature Unconventional ideas • Less of a focus on God • The Middle Ages saw the rise of Catholicism, but with the Black Plague and corruption in the Catholic Church, Protestantism came into being • Caused a rift in European literature of competition between the two

  9. Religion in Renaissance Art- The Last Supper • Most art in the Renaissance was commissioned by the Church as a sort of influence on the public, but it started to deviate (Mona Lisa)

  10. Humanism • Humanism was an interest in and a study of rhetoric, literary criticism, grammar, philology, poetry, and history. • Separation between God and Man Similarities between God and Man • People no longer just wanted to learn past, they wanted to learn past accurately and utilize it in the present • Created a bridge between man and God. • Women gained a more popular role in literature • Full character development

  11. Hamlet “That this too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix’dHis canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitableSeem to me all the uses of this world![...]Possess it merely. That it should come to this![…]But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue.”(Act 1, scene ii)

  12. Tragedy • Tragedy is present in almost all Renaissance literature • Mechanical and daunting Tragic and emotional • The shift came from the nontraditional ideas that blossomed during this period: • Humanism, Individualism etc. • SHAKESPEARE, CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE • Archetypes, tragedy of miscalculation, tragedy of revenge, tragedy of circumstance • Hamlet • Julius Caesar

  13. Tragedy Within Hamlet • Shakespeare’s plays are mostly all called “tragedies” • The decision of living or not living—struggle • “To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to sufferThe Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,And by opposing end them: to die, to sleepNo more; and by a sleep, to say we endThe Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocksThat Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,To sleep, perchance to Dream[…]”(Act 3, scene i)

  14. Emergence of Popular Literature • The printing press was invented, which resulted in the public being able to access literature. • Only the elite Average people • The invention of the printing press by German printer Johannes Gutenberg allowed the rapid production of literature” • Example: William Shakespeare, “The Globe”, “The Rose”

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