ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Arts

• Patronage

The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays such as King Lear and A midsummer night's dream.

• William Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo de Vinci

• Vasco de Gama

The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Elizabethan Age

• Renaissance Man

• Monarchy

A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type.

• printing press

• printer

• steam engine

• ink printer

Sir Thomas More wrote the work

• Paradise Lost

• Gulliver's Travels

• The Canterbury Tales

• Utopia

William Shakespeare wrote only theatre plays.

• True
• False

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

• New concepts on the universe and science

• New trade routes and goods

• Books printed in local vernaculars

• New concepts on religion

The Renaissance began in 

• England
• France
• Italy
• Constantinople

  An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.

• Florence
• city-state
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Brunelleschi