Magna Carte: Medieval Period......Date 1215.
Norman Invasion: 1066, Anglo Saxon Period
Henry 8th: He broke away from the Catholic Church which made people not depend on the church as much as they did.
Elizabeth 1st: She was a Patron of the Arts. She was tolerant towards religion but did not strongly favor it. She unified two countries that strongly opposed each other.
James 1st: He allowed the construction of the First copy of the Bible. He was the First king of the Stewarts. He to was also a Patron of the Arts.
Spenser: Wrote The Fairy Queen which was an allegory.
Sidney: He wrote Arcadia and he was a famous poet during the Renissance period.
Wyatt: He brought the Sonnet form to England.
Shakespeare: He was a Famous Sonnet and Play write during his time.
Christopher Marlow: He wrote the Passionate Shepherd
Sonnet Form: 14 lines, Octave(8 lines), Sestet(6 lines), Rhyming Couplet(2 lines). In Iambic Pentameter, with a fixed Rhyme Pattern.
Aside: Dialogue in a play supposedly not heard by the other actors in a play.
Soliloquy: A dramatic discourse in which a character reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters.
Blank Verse: An unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter.
Caesura: A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or speech rhythm rather then by metrics.
Meaning of the term Renaissance: It means Rebirth. a : the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science b : the period of the Renaissance c : the neoclassic style of architecture prevailing during the Renaissance. A movement or period of vigorous
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