- •1) What two genres of literature were most important in Elizabethan England?
- •2) What is a sonnet?
- •3) What is iambic pentameter?
- •4) Who was the Christopher Marlowe? What is one of his famous works?
- •5) Why do we know so little about Shakespeare’s life?
- •6) What did Shakespeare do besides writing plays and sonnets?
- •7) What was the most popular form of entertainment in Elizabethan England?
- •8) Why were theatres closed during the Civil War period in 17 th century in England?
- •9) Who were the Puritans and what literature did they write?
- •10) What was the Globe theatre? Why is it important?
- •11) Name one of the Shakespeare’s tragedies and tell briefly what is it about?
- •12) Name a Shakespeare’s tragedy, comedy and histories
- •13) What three types of plays did Shakespeare write? Give examples
- •14) What is the meter and rhyme used in most Shakespeare plays?
- •15) What Shakespeare play is this quote from? What does it mean? “Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.”
- •20) Who are three writers from the 17th century (Civil War and Restoration)
- •21). What is Puritanism, and who are two famous Puritan writers in the 17th century?
- •22)Who was John Milton? What was his most famous work?
- •23)What is Paradise Lost? Who is the author? Why is it famous?
- •27)What is the most famous example of Enlightenment era social satire?
- •28)Who calls mankind “the glory, jest and riddle of the world”? What does he mean?
- •29) What is Johnathan Swift most famous for?
- •30)Was Gulliver’s Travels intended to be a children’s book? What was the author’s intention?
- •31) What is the main plot of Gulliver’s travels?
- •32) Describe one of Gulliver’s voyages in Gulliver’s Travels.
- •33)Describe Gulliver’s adventure to the land of the Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels.
- •34) Describe Gulliver’s adventure to the land of the Giants in Gulliver’s Travels.
- •35) Describe Gulliver’s adventure to the land of the Laputa in Gulliver’s Travels.
- •36) Describe the Gulliver’s adventure to the land of Houynhnhnm and Yahoos in Gullivers travels.
- •37) What is the one main theme in Gulliver’s travels.
- •38)Who are the Yahoos in Gulliver’s travels.
- •39) What book is considered as the first English novel?
- •40). Why is the Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe so important?
27)What is the most famous example of Enlightenment era social satire?
Satire in the enlightenment period is superb, and there are a number of authors who excel in it. MoliFre is a master of satire, choosing various human foibles to satirize, to great comic effect. Jonathan Swift's satire is darker and deals more with satire about the human condition. Voltaire's satire pokes fun at the ridiculousness of philosophical optimism.
The Age of Enlightenment, an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th century advocating rationality, produced a great revival of satire in Britain. This was fuelled by the rise of partisan politics, with the formalisation of the Tory and Whig parties - and also, in 1714, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. This club included several of the notable satirists of early 18th century Britain. They focused their attention on Martinus Scriblerus, "an invented learned fool...whose work they attributed all that was tedious, narrow-minded, and pedantic in contemporary scholarship". In their hands astute and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. Jonathan Swift was one of the greatest of Anglo-Irish satirists, and one of the first to practise modern journalistic satire. For instance, In his A Modest Proposal Swift suggests that Irish peasants be encouraged to sell their own children as food for the rich, as a solution to the "problem" of poverty. His purpose is of course to attack indifference to the plight of the desperately poor. In his book Gulliver's Travels he writes about the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular. John Dryden wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire" that helped fix the definition of satire in the literary world. His satirical Mac Flecknoe was written in response to a rivalry with Thomas Shadwell and eventually inspired Alexander Pope to write his satirical The Rape of the Lock. Other satirical works by Pope include the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot.
28)Who calls mankind “the glory, jest and riddle of the world”? What does he mean?
An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalistic effort to use philosophy in order to "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justify the ways of God to man" (1.26). It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man. Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the Great Chain of Being (ll.33-34) and must accept that "Whatever IS, is RIGHT" (l.292), a theme that would soon be satirized by Voltaire in Candide.[1] More than any other work, it popularized optimistic philosophy throughout England and the rest of Europe.
29) What is Johnathan Swift most famous for?
Jonathan Swift the famous Irish satirist and journalist is best known for his work “Gulliver's Travels”. Swift’s most famous book “Gulliver's Travels” was published in 1726 and was the first serious work in prose written by the author. Although “Gulliver's Travels” is widely considered children’s book, the book is much deeper in its satirical view of the times.