MORE ABOUT RENAISSANCE
1.
Renaissance means “Rebirth”, in your
words explain why this period is called that way.
Renaissance
is called Rebirth because it is the time of revolution, modification, changed…
that happened in Europe between the 14th and 16th
centuries. It was a big age of growth for Europe. New cities growth up, a
middle class with more money to spend, and new great artists, writers and
thinkers came during this period.
2.
In what ways can you link Elizabeth I to
Shakespeare?
Queen
Elizabeth I was the leader during the time of Shakespeare's life. She enjoyed acting.
Queen Elizabeth I loved when the productions of Shakespeare were acted by herself.
She was very affectionate of Shakespeare’s productions. In some of his
creations,
Shakespeare smartly hinted habits referring to the Queen and other
events that joined during both of their life time.
William
Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in England at the time and he wrote
for the general population. Queen
Elizabeth supported Shakespeare’s writing and works because she also was
concerned with all members of society and not just royalty or wealthy people. Generally,
the Queen Elizabeth’s control had a positive effect on the production of
Shakespeare’s creations/
3.
Why is Shakespeare so famous? What have
been his contributions to Literature and the English language?
Shakespeare is famous because he is one of the
greatest writers. His productions represent perceptible people in situations that all of us
experience at one time or at least once in our life-love, marriage, death,
mourning, guilt, the need to make difficult decisions, separations, reunions
and reconciliation among them. They do so with great humanity, tolerance, and knowledge.
Because they ate written to be acted
they are constantly fresh and can be adapted to
the place and time they are performed. Their language is wonderfully expressive
and powerful, and although it may sometimes seem hard to understand in reading.
Actors can bring it to vivid life for us. Those
productions provide to the
actors with some of the most challenging and rewarding roles ever written. They
are entertaining and moving. They help us to understand what it is to be human,
and to handle with the problems of being so.
Shakespeare made a lot of contributions to
English Literature. Shakespeare made up his own words, which ones still live on
the English language today. Shakespeare is responsible for creating about 1.700
of the English words.
For example, it is know that he created the word:
“accused”.
He took the Greek Prefix: “acou-“,
“acous-“,” acouso-“, or “acoust-“, that means “denotes
hearing” and joint it with the past tense ending –ed to refer to those who
are on trial could be guilt or innocence.
4.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet? How it
is formed?
Shakespeare’s
sonnets are a full collection of poems that are related with themes as time,
love, beauty and mortality. Shakespeare’s sonnets were very popular during his
lifetime because they were written in a strict poetic form. Mostly speaking,
each sonnet engages pictures and sounds to present an argument to the reader.
A
sonnet is in verse form and has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare’s sonnets follow the pattern “abab cdcd efef gg”, and Petrarch’s
sonnets follow the pattern “abba abba cdecde”. All the lines in iambic
pentameter have five feet, consisting of a unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed one.
