What year is the period?
Late 15th - Early 17th Century
What does this era emphasize?
Literature and Music
The literary devices that define English literature?
allegory, irony and ambiguity
Who was the central of English Renaissance?
Elizabeth I
What does this era do?
Professionalized acting and theatre culture
What is Sonnets
a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm
Which period were sonnets popularized
16th century
What was the era of Elizabeth I called?
Elizabethan period
Which sonnet structured English Sonnets of Elizabethan period?
Petrarch’s sonnets
What is Petrarch’s full name
Francesco Petrarca
What is Sonnets mostly about
Love poems
What does Petrach’s sonnets stanza look like
2 stanzas: The octave (introducing the problem/conflict/question) The sestet (resolution/reflection/commentary)
How many sonnets wrote by shakespeare were collected
159 poems
Structure of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
3 quatrains (four-line stanza) followed by a couplet that is final rhymed (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)
What are some distinct feature of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Unclear whether he is narrator in the poem or different figure
What are some Elizabethan Theatre characteristic?
All parts were played by men with teenage boys playing a young female role
