renaissance

RENAISSANCE

This week subject of the lesson was  renaissance. Renaissance came up agenda in 15th – 16th century . When renaissance started, innovation and development was seen in numerous field such as, literature, art, science…

In this period, church and scholasticism lost their effect  but science and art gain more importance. Also humanism is very effective in this period because lots of author and poet wrote their work by affecting a humanistic approach so we can see a lot of example of this. For example; William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Piers Plowman, Geoffrey Chaucer, is a famous authors of the renaissance. Also in this period a lot of work is writen by this author even some work shed light on today. 1. Elizabeth has an important position in Renaissance literature.

Some example of literal work and author  in renaissance:

Authors:

Chapman, George (1559?-1634), poet, dramatist, translated classics like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Coverdale, Miles (1488?-1569), translator--Bible.
Tyndale, William (1492?-1536), translator, tract writer--New Testament (trans.).
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626), philosopher, essayist--New Atlantis; 'The Advancement of Learning," Essays.
Lyly, John (1554?-1606), novelist, dramatist--"Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit"; "Euphues and His England."
More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), prose writer--Utopia.
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-86), poet, novelist--'Astrophel and Stella'; Arcadia.

Playwrights:
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), dramatist--with John Fletcher, The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641), dramatist--The Shoemaker's Holiday.
Fletcher, John (1579-1625), dramatist--with Francis Beaumont, The Maid's Tragedy; with Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Ford, John (1586-1640?), dramatist--The Broken Heart.
Heywood, Thomas (died 1641?), dramatist--A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637), poet, dramatist--"Song to Celia."
Kyd, Thomas (1558-94), dramatist--The Spanish Tragedy.
Lyly, John (1554?-1606), novelist, dramatist--Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit; Euphues and His England.
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93), dramatist--Doctor Faustus; The Jew of Malta;
Tamburlaine.
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640), dramatist--A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
Middleton, Thomas (1570?-1627), dramatist--Michaelmas Terne.
Shakespeare William (1564-1616), dramatist, poet--As You Like It; Hamlet; Macbeth; King Lear; The Tempest; and many other works.
Webster, John (1580?-1625?), dramatist--The Duchess of Malfi.

 

Poets:

Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625), poet--"Rosalynde."
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-86), poet, novelist--"Astrophel and Stella"; Arcadia.
Skelton, John (1460?-1529), poet--"Colyn Clout."
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-99), poet--The Faerie Queene,
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-42), poet--"Certayne Psalmes."                             Shakespeare William (1564-1616), dramatist poet—Sonnets

REFERENCES

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/renaissance_authors.html

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0ngilizce_edebiyat

canterbury tales and middle english

MIDDLE ENGLISH and THE CANTERBURY TALES

In this week, we learnt features of the middle ages also dwelled on the major points in mediaval period. I want to mention important point which I learned at this lesson.

First of all, I want to speak of the middle Ages. Middle Ages is a period between the 5th and 14th centuries. Generally, Scholastic thought dominated in this period so it is known as a dark period. These are the prime events of this period:

•         The Decline of feudalism ( 10th - century)

Feudalism started to subversion due to  economic and trade factors in 10th century

•         The Decline and the corruption in the church

decreased confidence in the church

•         The Blackdeath (1348)

The population declined due to belackdeath

•         The Peasants’ Revolt (1381)

•         The Norman Conquest ( 11th-century)

•         -French culture came to England.

•         -French language became the official language.

-Effect of french culture started in english literature.

In medieval period, every person latch on to the king blessedly also king is served by all people becuse he is  the authority. Also in this period we can see feudalism. Feudalism, was a hierarchical system. In this system, people were given land  and worked and fought for them in return. King is at the top of this system. But later on, Feudalism and Peasant’s Revolt declined. As a result of this decline, capitalism started to come up with the selling of  aristocracy’s land because the land was bought by merchants and workers demanded wages. This system based on capital Money so this caused to capitalism.              Literature in middle ages, is nonpersonal. Work is more important than author so most of the Works were anonymous. Also Latin and French influenced the English literature. The canterbury tales are  one of these works.         The Canterbury Tales  is a collection of some stories which are told by  a group of pilgrims from Southwark to Canterbury. It includes twenty four different tales. Geoffrey Chaucer canterbury tales are written in middle ages with using rhymed and metered, wide vocabulary, clever phrases and many dialects. Canterbury tales are formed a lot of tales which are told by pilgrims. Also this tales have a lot of character which symbolize various people and varios things in public like the wife of  bath, the pordoner, the miller, the prioress, the monk, the friar, the summoner, the host, the parson, the squire, the clerk etc..             We can learn a lot of things from this work about english literature and old social-economic situation  so it has a great important in our lives.