Reinassance (Henry VIII: 1509 – 1547)and

Elizabethan Times 1558 - 1603

Drama vs Poetry

Playwrights:

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) (29)Tamburlaine, part 1 (1587)Tamburlaine part 2 (1587-1588)The Jew of Malta (1589)Doctor Faustus (1590)Edward II (1592)The Massacre at Paris (1593)William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (52)HistoriesComediesTragediesBen Jonson (1572-1637)VolponeSaint Bartholomew FairThe Alchemist

PoetsThomas Wyatt (1503-1542)Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)Philip Sydney (1554-1586)

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)Christopher Marlowe (blank verse)

William Shakespeare (original for themes and addressee: the

traditional love poems in praise of beauty and worth, for instance, are written to a man, the

Earl of Southampton, while the love poems to a woman are almost all bitter and negative)

John Donne (1572-1631) passionate love poems

(both explicitly physical as well as spiritual love in his early period)

Ben Jonson

John Milton (1608 – 1674)Paradise Lost (1667)

Especially authors of sonnets

Metaphysical because of difficult style and unusual imagery used

Chivalric because inspired by Ludovico Ariosto for his Faerie

Queenie

Christian Epic poem

Cavalier poetry=classical elegance and

clarity

A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one stressed followed by an unstressed.The Structure of a Blank Verse Poem five feet of iambic syllables - sounds like this

du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM

each foot making the verse sound like it has heart beat rhythm.

An Example of a Blank Verse PoemFurball Friend

Sweet pet by day, hunter by night. She sleeps, she eats, she plays. My feet, caught in white paws.She’s up the fence, watching her prey - a bird.Poor thing, better run quick, ’cause watch, she’ll pounce!She’ll sweetly beg for fuss, but don’t be fooled. ’Cause one minute she’ll purr and smile, then snap!