During the Renaissance in England, the government was comprised of the monarch, Privy Council, and Parliament. Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful monarch who required Parliament's approval for taxes. The Privy Council advised the Queen, consisting of 11 members by 1597. Parliament included the House of Lords for nobles and clergy, and the House of Commons for commoners. Philosophically, humanism became influential as secular ideas about mankind and classical antiquity spread. Religiously, Protestantism emerged under Martin Luther in opposition to the Catholic Church's practices, switching church services to English and viewing priests as ordinary people.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages,[citation needed] he is best known for The Canterbury Tales, and is considered the "Father of English literature". He was the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.[1] Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
The 14th century is known as Chaucer’s age
It marks the beginning of a new language and literature
It was the age of transformation from medieval age to modern times
It was essentially an era of unrest and transition
Main writers of the age: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Wycliffe, Sir John Mandeville, John Gower
Remarkable Events that Influenced Chaucer
Natural calamities
Black Death [Plague] (A.D. 1348-49)
Age of social unrest and economic troubles. -- Labor become unsatisfied with their salary. -- Efforts were made to keep the labors under control with the help of legislation.
Burdens of taxation.
Conflict between king Richard and his subjects
Features of Chaucer’s Age with Example
Standard English Language: Proper English without influence of other languages
Example: The Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer; Piers Plowman by William Langland etc.
Realism: Concept of reality
Example: The settings of The Canterbury Tales
Church Corruption:
Example: The religious figures in The Canterbury Tales highlights many problems of church corruptions
Presence of Humor, Satire & Irony:
Example: The Canterbury Tales reveal Chaucerian Humor in the Prologue, showed Satire through the characterization & Irony to build up a satirical portrait.
Spirit of Romance:
Example: Courtly love, Romance, Marriage & Sexual Desire are found in the theme of The Canterbury Tales
Frame Story: A literary device that joins together 2 or more large stories or frame.
Example: The Canterbury Tales is a great indication of the frame work
Growth of Nationalism:
Example: In the writings of this age the influence of love for nation are found.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages,[citation needed] he is best known for The Canterbury Tales, and is considered the "Father of English literature". He was the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.[1] Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
The 14th century is known as Chaucer’s age
It marks the beginning of a new language and literature
It was the age of transformation from medieval age to modern times
It was essentially an era of unrest and transition
Main writers of the age: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Wycliffe, Sir John Mandeville, John Gower
Remarkable Events that Influenced Chaucer
Natural calamities
Black Death [Plague] (A.D. 1348-49)
Age of social unrest and economic troubles. -- Labor become unsatisfied with their salary. -- Efforts were made to keep the labors under control with the help of legislation.
Burdens of taxation.
Conflict between king Richard and his subjects
Features of Chaucer’s Age with Example
Standard English Language: Proper English without influence of other languages
Example: The Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer; Piers Plowman by William Langland etc.
Realism: Concept of reality
Example: The settings of The Canterbury Tales
Church Corruption:
Example: The religious figures in The Canterbury Tales highlights many problems of church corruptions
Presence of Humor, Satire & Irony:
Example: The Canterbury Tales reveal Chaucerian Humor in the Prologue, showed Satire through the characterization & Irony to build up a satirical portrait.
Spirit of Romance:
Example: Courtly love, Romance, Marriage & Sexual Desire are found in the theme of The Canterbury Tales
Frame Story: A literary device that joins together 2 or more large stories or frame.
Example: The Canterbury Tales is a great indication of the frame work
Growth of Nationalism:
Example: In the writings of this age the influence of love for nation are found.
#Chaucer's art of characterization
#Presentation
#classical poetry
#education
#helping material
#teaching
#knowledge
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Presentation about the Restoration Period of Drama, the most popular type of comedy of the age - Comedy of Manners and Richard Sheridan, who wrote The School for Scandal, a representative play of the Restoration Age of Drama.
A presentation analysing Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney', a poem about freedom, death and loss, home and isolation from his collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'
This slide only contains the theme for the drama 'Measure for Measure' by William Shakespeare. It is an outcome for my group's presentation for 'The Teaching of Drama' course.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
#Chaucer's art of characterization
#Presentation
#classical poetry
#education
#helping material
#teaching
#knowledge
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ayman-batool-4b55a3205_chaucers-art-of-characterization-activity-6767364096041005056-cgX-
Presentation about the Restoration Period of Drama, the most popular type of comedy of the age - Comedy of Manners and Richard Sheridan, who wrote The School for Scandal, a representative play of the Restoration Age of Drama.
A presentation analysing Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney', a poem about freedom, death and loss, home and isolation from his collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'
This slide only contains the theme for the drama 'Measure for Measure' by William Shakespeare. It is an outcome for my group's presentation for 'The Teaching of Drama' course.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
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5. The government in England during this era was made up
of three different bodies: the monarch, the Privy
Council, and the Parliament.
1. The monarch was Queen Elizabeth. She was very
powerful and determined most of the laws of the
land, but she did have to get approval from
Parliament to implement taxes.
2. The Privy Council was made up of the queen's
closest advisors. They would make
recommendations and give her advice. When
Elizabeth first became queen there were 50
members of the Privy Council. She reduced this over
time until there were only 11 members by 1597.
3. Parliament had two groups.
House of Lords and was made up of nobles and
high ranking church officials . House of Commons
which was made up of commoners.
6. • The political authority of the Catholic Church
had diminished due to internal conflicts.
• Feudal system discontinued.
• Merchants raised their class.
• humanism affect
• banking system
8. The Main Ingredients of Medieval
Philosophy
• Classical pagan philosophy (Greek, Roman
versions)
• New Christian religion.
• Season with a variety of Jewish and Islamic
intellectual heritages.
12. Writers of humanism period
• Erasmes (republic)
• Sir Thomas (Utopia)
• Sir Philip Sydney. (Defense of poetry)
• Frances Bacon (essayist)
• Marlow (dramatist)
• Shakespeare.
14. In the early 1500's the people of
England practiced the
Roman Catholic religion.
15. In the years(1483 - 1546) German
Martin Luther prompted a new
religion called Protestantism.
16. MAIN DIFFERENCES
CATHLOCISM
• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Church
Services and the Bible should be in Latin,
as it had been for 1000 years.
• Elizabethan Catholics firmly believed that
Priests were the link between God and
the people and that the Pope was
ordained by God. They were viewed as
special and expected to devote their lives
to God and remain unmarried and wear
elaborate robes
• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Priests
and the Pope were able to forgive sins -
at a price. Gifts, or indulgences, were
given to the church.
• Catholics believed that Churches should
be decorated as they celebrate God .
PROTESTAINTISM
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that
Church Services and the Bible should be
in the language of the people
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that
people could find God without a priest or
a Pope and that Ministers were ordinary
people who should lead normal lives and
wear ordinary robes
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that only
God could forgive sins
• Protestants believed that Churches should
be plain allowing the people to
concentrate on the sermons .
