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Questions for the seminars (anul II)

Historical background The Renaissance


Renaissance poetry:
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542) his sonnets
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Elisabethan Drama
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Edward II.
Thomas Kyd Spanish Tragedy (1592)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) his life,
By Shakespeare- The First Period; His Histories
Romeo and Juliet (1594);
The Merchant of Venice (1596);
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1601);
King Lear (1605);
Twelfth Night (1600);
W. Shakespeares sonnets
Renaissance prose:
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia
Francis Bacon Essays
Thomas Nash The Life of Jacke Wilton

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