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Renaissance
Literature
David
Heather
Ace
Denise
Abbi
General Characteristics
Some are written in Middle English
More poetic (introduction of prose poetry)
More diverse styles of poetry
Sonnets, prose
Stories are long winded
Few women writers
Drama
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kydd
5 act structure
Aristotle’s definition of tragedy
Based on earlier works
In verse form
Authors/Works
Sir Thomas Hoby “The First book of the
Courtier”
Sir Phillip Sidney “Loving in truth”
Geoffrey Chaucer “Merciles Beaute”
Ben Johnson “To John Donne”
Marlowe “Tamburlaine”