Concept of education

.1 Humanism an Religious ref.Cult and social transform.EU,manifested poetry an drama. Culminate in the elizabethan era.Printing press that democatrized knwoledg.Loss pow church, +influence courtly noble elites.Change papal author.Movement humanism, human beings center.2.2Lyrical modernity develops from Petrarchanism to metaphysical poetry.Petrarchan sonnet-Italy-Francesco Petrarch- work*Canzoniere.This poetry focusesloveas perfect and unattainable,describebeauty precious comparisons.The Petrarchan sonnet arrived -Sir Thomas Wyatt-adapted to the E. Iambic pentameter-mpossible love Henry Howard-modified sonnet-rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, final rhyming couplet-summarises- poem. Standard English sonnet form.. Edmund Spenser, in *Amoretti*, addressed a real woman rather than an abstract ideal, giving female figure intelligence. William Shakespeare perfected the English sonnet- themes love, beauty, time, mortality.Realism and psychological depth.Late Renaissance, a reaction against the emotional excess and idealism of Petrarchan poetry gave rise to metaphysical poetry. The metaphysical poets, including John Donne, George Herbert,Andrew Marvell,poetry combined love, religion, philosophy,science. Paradox, irony, ambiguity, antithesis ,wordplay. John Donne, (+), explores love in both its spiritual and sexual.

2.3.THE RENAISSANCE DRAMA

tudorinterludes:Short secular performances-banquets.Not religious-everyday topics.Debates-two characters,reflectedsocial class*Drama-most important literary genre,Used in education to teach rhetoric an public speaking,origin first regular English comedy.Origin of thefirst regular English tragedy,Performed for elite audiences,political issues.Professionalisation of Drama

* First professional theatre:The Theatre (1576)-James Burbage.Round, open-air buildings.No scenery;Trapdoors, musicians’ area.Audience paid.Puritansopposed theatre:

William Shakespeare:Born,died Stratford. No uni.

* Plays usually sold to theatre companies.Dramatic Genres: Based on English history.Explore kingship an power.Humanise historical figures,national identity.

Comedies:,Love marriage,Wordplay,Music,dance.Settings often outside England.Tragedies*:Hamlet*,Romeo.. Great characters (kings, princes) Love,violence,political conflict.Revenge,End in death. Tragicomedies:Mix-tragedy ancomedy,Happy endings. Sense of loss and reconciliation.