Introduction to English Literature - Renaissance Literature: An Introduction (2/2)

#literature #booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #shakespeare Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa An Introduction to the Renaissance. The lecture presents on overview of the various historical drivers contributing to the birth of the Renaissance, or the early modern revolution in thinking. Finally, the lecture focuses on the Renaissance understanding of art, as exemplified by Sidney's Defence of Poetry, as a response to Plato's critique of poetry. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGYtpV2KOah9_cJ2F_x2E1GywWkGaF2H/view?usp=drive_link My Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/sample6?authuser=0 0:00 - Introduction 1:40 - The Early Tudor Era (1485 - 1558) 4:10 - Henry VIII 5:55 - After Henry VIII, "Bloddy Mary" 6:58 - English Humanism; Thomas More 7:45 - Religious Reform; William Tyndale 11:22 - Historiography; Edward Hall 12:30 - English Sonnets; Thomas Wyatt, Surrey 14:50 - Elizabethan Era (1558 - 1603) 16:45 - Suppression of Catholicism 20:25 - Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene 22:25 - Elizabethan Sonnets; Sidney's Astrophil and Stella 23:45 - Elizabethan Drama 25:05 - Jacobean Era (1603 - 25) 27:30 - Caroline and Commonwealth Period (1625 - 60) 32:10 - Art and Truth in the Renaissance (Sidney's Defence of Poesy; reference to Plato's critique of poetry) Related lectures: English Literature: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aQraZkgWkE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Medieval Literature: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6J9ZTXb8P4&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=22&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrE-Bs4FOyg&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=25&t=5s&pp=gAQBiAQB0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzvsAgC Medieval Literary Theory: Fourfold Interpretation -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2CRuS0ubc&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=13&t=125s&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC How to Read a Poem: On Sidney's Astrophil and Stella #5 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSxI72wPO4&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=11&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Thomas More's Utopia: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-shLosJNd4s&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=22&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Shakespeare: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djve4OUsZZg&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=13&t=27s&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC