English Renaissance Literature

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 English humanist and writer who wrote Utopia - a book that was about an ideal society where everyone was equal and free

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Pieter Brueghel

• Thomas More

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

• Johann Gutenberg

• Elizabethan Age

• Renaissance Man

• Monarchy

Sir Thomas More wrote the work

• Paradise Lost

• Gulliver's Travels

• The Canterbury Tales

• Utopia

How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?

• by writing in Latin

• by creating the first newspapers

• by writing the Bible

• by writing in the common lanugage

Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

• Anglo-Saxon

• Greek and Latin

• Anglo-Norman

• Old English

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

William Shakespeare wrote only theatre plays.

• True

• False

 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.

• Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Petrarch