MORE ABOUT RENAISSANCE

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 14^th and 16^th 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.