· The Elizabethean Age: ( du kannst die Klammern weglassen die sind nur für mich)
1. Slide: General Information:
Literature period form the year 1558 till 1603 ( accession to the Throne and her death)
Seen as a period of peace calm and contentment
Types of Literature: poetry drama, songwriting, sonnets, madrigals and pioneering plays
Most famous writers: William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney or Christopher Marlowe
Music and Art: Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Nicholas Hilliard
2. Slide: Historical context
Religion:
(Her Father) King Henry the VIII had broken with the Roman Catholic Church —> Conflicts between
Catholics and Protestants
Influences on the conflict:
· Queen Mary of Scotland (try’s to return England to Catholicism)
· Restrictions on Religious freedom for the Catholics (Mandatory Sunday service in an Anglican
Church —> fined —> resentment)
· Pope St. Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth
· Death of Queen Mary
· Anglo-Spanish war (1580s, Spanish Armada Suffered destruction,Spain supports Irish catholic
groups trying to overthrow Elizabeth )
—> Catholics in England were increasingly persecuted
3. Slide: The “golden age” / “ The English Renaissance”
· Some amount of religious freedom ( Catholics would not be the target of state violence, also to
maintain good relationships with powerful catholic countries and trying to sooth out the conflict
in England)
· Time of calm
· Urbanization increased
· Population rose (despite the war)
· Educational levels increased ( partly because Protestants wanted to interpret and read the Bible
themselves)
· Expansion of the middle class (Exploration and slave trade started with funded Pirates and the first
black slaves were shipped of to America)
Slide 4: Artistic achievement:
· Elizabeth = lover of arts, patron for a lot of artists
· Innovative , creative
· “Cult of Gloriana” = Elizabeth as a God and protector of England
· —> Propaganda (Duty to honor and glorify the queen)
Slide 4 Key writer of different genres
Drama William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson
Poetry Edmund Spender, Sir Phillip Sidney
Fictional prose John Lyly Thomas Nashe
1. Slide: General Information:
Literature period form the year 1558 till 1603 ( accession to the Throne and her death)
Seen as a period of peace calm and contentment
Types of Literature: poetry drama, songwriting, sonnets, madrigals and pioneering plays
Most famous writers: William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney or Christopher Marlowe
Music and Art: Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Nicholas Hilliard
2. Slide: Historical context
Religion:
(Her Father) King Henry the VIII had broken with the Roman Catholic Church —> Conflicts between
Catholics and Protestants
Influences on the conflict:
· Queen Mary of Scotland (try’s to return England to Catholicism)
· Restrictions on Religious freedom for the Catholics (Mandatory Sunday service in an Anglican
Church —> fined —> resentment)
· Pope St. Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth
· Death of Queen Mary
· Anglo-Spanish war (1580s, Spanish Armada Suffered destruction,Spain supports Irish catholic
groups trying to overthrow Elizabeth )
—> Catholics in England were increasingly persecuted
3. Slide: The “golden age” / “ The English Renaissance”
· Some amount of religious freedom ( Catholics would not be the target of state violence, also to
maintain good relationships with powerful catholic countries and trying to sooth out the conflict
in England)
· Time of calm
· Urbanization increased
· Population rose (despite the war)
· Educational levels increased ( partly because Protestants wanted to interpret and read the Bible
themselves)
· Expansion of the middle class (Exploration and slave trade started with funded Pirates and the first
black slaves were shipped of to America)
Slide 4: Artistic achievement:
· Elizabeth = lover of arts, patron for a lot of artists
· Innovative , creative
· “Cult of Gloriana” = Elizabeth as a God and protector of England
· —> Propaganda (Duty to honor and glorify the queen)
Slide 4 Key writer of different genres
Drama William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson
Poetry Edmund Spender, Sir Phillip Sidney
Fictional prose John Lyly Thomas Nashe
