文档介绍：English Literature
Lecture Three: The English Renaissance
Presented by Tiger
Contents
Background
The Reformation
Henry VIII
The Renaissance and Humanism
Development of Literature
Thomas More
Sidney
Edmund Spenser
John Lily
Francis Bacon
Background
The Tudor Dynasty:
English ruling dynasty (1485-1603), including Henry VII and his descendants Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. The Tudors reunited the country after a period of civil strife and made the English church independent of the pope. It is a centralized monarch which met the needs and have the support of the rising bourgeoisie.
Reformation, great 16th-century religious revolution in the Christian church, which ended the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope in Western Christendom and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant churches. With the Renaissance that preceded and the French Revolution that followed, the pletely altered the medieval way of life in Western Europe and initiated the era of modern history.
The Reformation
In England, the political break from Rome came first as a result of a decision by King Henry VIII to divorce his first wife, and the change in religious doctrine came afterward in the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. Henry in 1534 have Parliament pass an act appointing the king and his essors supreme head of the Church of England, thus establishing an independent national Anglican church. Under King Edward VI, the Protestant doctrines and practices abhorred by Henry VIII were introduced into the Anglican church. Mary I attempted, however, to restore Roman Catholicism as the state religion, and during her reign many Protestants were burned at the stake. A final settlement was reached under Queen Elizabeth I in 1563. Protestantism was restored, and Roman Catholics were often persecuted.
Henry VIII by Hans Holbein
Hans Holbein’s famous portrait of Henry VIII shows the Tudor king as the quintessential Renaissance sovereign. Henry prided himsel