- focus on individual & what's within ourselves instead of outside
- world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing human life on Earth
- popular themes: development of human potential; many aspects of love explored
- unrequited love
- constant
- timeless
- courtly
- subject to change
- 1607 - Jamestown settled
- 1620 - Pilgrim's land at Plymouth
- 1649-1660 - Commonwealth period - England ruled by Parliament
- 1558-1603 - Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Shakespeare: 1591-1613 Writing
Spencer - Stanzas
Milton - Iambic pentameter unrhymed
Pope - Heroic couplet rhymed iambic pentameter
An epic should be about submission, inward wars. Face your inward demons, spiritual, emotional, new type of hero - Eve becomes the hero because she embraces the battle against herself.
- Ambition as a living force driving on a heroic nature otherwise possessed of aims and capable of great deeds
- Revenge as a living force driving human nature
- Hamlet
- The Merchant of Venice
- The role of the supernatural in Hamlet & Macbeth
- In what way is the Merchant of Venice a potential tragedy but in the end a comedy?
- A comparison of the characters of Hamlet and Macbeth
- No one necessarily only way to interpret Shakespeare or his characters
- Not just a writer of his era, but rather of all time, giving him universality
- as alive today as he was then
- appeals to as wide an audience today as then
- incredible range of what it's like to be human - presents human conditions greater than any other writer
Spencer - Stanzas
Milton - Iambic pentameter unrhymed
Pope - Heroic couplet rhymed iambic pentameter
An epic should be about submission, inward wars. Face your inward demons, spiritual, emotional, new type of hero - Eve becomes the hero because she embraces the battle against herself.
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