Renaissance literature

Renaissance literature

1. Reinforce

   • Printing press
     • Changed literature

2. Components

   • Essays
   • Sonnets
   • Stanzas

3. Focus

   • Antiquity
     • Theater
     • Social critique
     • Political commentary
     • Poetry
   • Imitate art
   • Free will
   • Change reality through art
   • Humanism
     • Huminst Philosophy
       • Greek and Norman teaching

4. Renaissance

   • 1500-1600

5. Writers

   • Edmund Spencer
     • "The Faerie Queene"
     • "The Shepheardes Calendar"
   • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
     • "Don Quijote de la Mancha"
   • Sir Thomas More
     • "Utopia"
   • Niccoló Machiavello
     • "The prince"
   • William Shakespeare
     • "The Merchant of Venice"
     • "Antony and Cleopatra"
     • "Macbeth"
     • "Sonnet 17"
     • "Romeo and Juliet"
     • "Hamlet"