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date of the renaissance period
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1485-1625
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first king of the renaissance; first Tudor king; his marriage ended the War of the Roses
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Henry 7
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split with the Catholic Church to form the Church of England; married 6 times
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Henry 8
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Elizabeth and Edwards sister; "Bloody Mary", Catholic
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Mary
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last Tudor monarch; historical and literay era named for her; never married, Protestant, patron
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Elizabeth 1
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first Stuart king, patron
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James 1
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became king at 9 and died at 15, Henry's son by Lady Jane Seymour
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Edward 6
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revolted against the ancient church, founded his own
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Martin Luther
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queen of Scotland, granddaughter of Henry 8, was next to the throne after Elizabeth
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Mary Stuart
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the most popular playwrights of the Renaissance
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Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe
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types of literature
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drama, poetry, prose
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noble characters and a central love plot
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romantic comedy
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domestic situation at the center of the plot
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domestic comedy
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middle class characters, a London setting, satire
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city comedy
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type of characters created on the theory that the predominance of a particular fluid
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humor comedy
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evils and problems seem destined to end tragically are brought to a sudden, happy resolution
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tragic comedy
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a tragdy or comedy
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drama
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essays, allegory, fiction, criticism
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prose
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pastoral, satire, allegory, lyric
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poetry
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first major theater
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Theatre
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catered to the upper class
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Blackfriars
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catered primarily to the lower class
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Globe
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narrative in which characters,actions,or setting represents abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story
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allegory
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addressing an absent or inanimate object
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apostrophe
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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lower genre than tragedy,and the style often mixed prose and verse
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comedy
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two lines
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couplet
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3 Quatrains and a Couplet, Rhyme Scheme
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english/shakespearean sonnet
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10 alternatiing stressed/unstressed syllables
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iambic pentameter
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octave/sestet, usually in problem/solution form, Rhyme scheme
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italian/petrarchan sonnet
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8 lines
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octave
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presents a simple and idealized world inhabited by shepherds who are cheifly concerned to tend their flocks,fall in love,engage in friendly poetry
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pastroal poetry
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gives grants,offices, honors,or financial support to a writer in return to complements in the literature
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patron
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4 lines
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quatrain
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holds up to ridicule and scorn a society peopled by fops and fools,l corrupt lawyers
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satire
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6 lines
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sestet
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14 line iambic pentameter poem
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sonnet
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rhyme scheme
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spenserian sonnet
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the fall of a great man from a high place
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tragedy
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what did dante write?
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Beatrice (italian renaissance)
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Petrarch wrote?
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Sonnet to Laura (italian renaissance)
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Edmund Spenser wrote?
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Amoretti, for his wife Elizabeth Boyle
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Philip Sidney wrote?
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Astrophet and Stella, about Penelope Devereaux
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a wronged protagonist plots and executes revenge,destroying himself or herself in the process
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revenge tragedy
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the protagonist is blatantly evil
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villian tragedy
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the hero is larger than life, continually challenging the limits of humnan possibility
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heroic tragedy
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