Renaissance in English Literature Cамир

КГБОУ СПО «Хабаровский педагогический колледж»
Ризаев Самир, студент 4 курса, школьного отделения
Руководитель – Киргинцева Алена
Евгеньевна,преподаватель английского языка
PLAN:
1.Reneissance period.
2. Major literary figures.
3. Sir Thomas More.
4. “Utopia”
THOMAS MORE LITERATURE
Renaissance in Britain is the
period beginning in around 1500
and lasting until the mid-1600s.
Influenced by the artistic and
cultural Renaissance, the
transformation of both English
language and literature.
The period is characterized by
the influence of the classics
(in literature, language, and
philosophy), as well as an
optimistic forward-thinking
approach to the potential of
humans (known as
Renaissance humanism).
In simple terms, the Renaissance in England
was caused by the spread of Renaissance
learning and ideology from Italy, where it
developed earlier (c.1400–1500). The
Renaissance embraced not only literature, but
also art and architecture.
MAJOR LITERARY FIGURES
SIR THOMAS MORE
The most important of the
writers was humanist Sir
Thomas More.
He was born in Milk Street,
London on February 7, 1478.
He studied at Oxford and was
successful as a lawyer from
1501. He served as an
undersheriff of London and
endeared himself to
Londoners as a fair judge and
consultant.
February 7, 1478 - 6 July, 1535
In 1517 More was named to the king's council,
and he became Henry VIII's secretary and
confidant.
In 1523 he was elected speaker of the House of
Commons. He wrote A Dialogue Concerning
Heresies (1529) to refute heretical writings.
Thomas More was devote catholic,
he was against the King and was
condemned to death and
beheaded in the Tower of London
on April 17.
“UTOPIA”
More's Utopia was, in the
words of Legouis, "true
prologue to the
Renaissance.'"
It was the first book written
by an Englishman which
achieved European fame;
it was written in Latin
(1516) and only later
(1555) was translated into
English.
The word "Utopia" is from
Greek "ou topos" meaning
"no place". More's Utopia
is an imaginary island
which is the habitat of an
ideal republic.
IT CONSISTS OF TWO PARTS:
In the first there is a vivid picture of the
terrible evils which England was
suffering through war, lawlessness, the
wholesale and foolish application of the
death penalty, the misery of the
peasants, the absorption of the land by
the rich, and the other distressing
corruptions in Church and State.
In the second part, in contrast to all this, a
certain imaginary Raphael Hythlodaye
describes the customs of Utopia, a remote
island in the New World, to which chance
has carried him.
To some of the ideals thus set forth More can
scarcely have expected the world ever to attain;
and some of them will hardly appeal to the
majority of readers of any period; but in the
main he lays down an admirable program for
human progress, no small part of which has
been actually realized in the four centuries
which have since elapsed.
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