Renaissance Authors - Period 5

Thomas More

What author was influenced by Renaissance ideas that valued education and reason, shaping his work, Utopia?

Thomas More

Which author’s work, helped shaped modern day utopian and dystopian concepts today like Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and Divergent?

Christopher Marlowe

Which author was often viewed very suspiciously due to accusations of being a spy for the queen?

Christopher Marlowe

Which author’s was known for making the blank verse the standard for English drama?

Thomas Nashe

Which author was well known for shaping early modern English prose and enhanced the satirical social criticism?

Thomas Kyd

Which author was know for the revenge tragedy drama such as The Spanish Tragedy?

Mary Sidney Herbert

Which author is known for writing a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms?

John Webster

Which author was known for their themes of existential suffering, cruelty, terror, and tragedies evident in The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil?

What inspired the play Hamlet?

Shakespeare’s grief after losing his son Hament.

How many words did Shakespeare add to the English language?

Over 1,000

John Milton

Whose writing popularized blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) and from the “bondage of rhyming" and set new standard for later poets?

What is Paradise Lost about?

The retelling of the Bible story of Adam and Eve with the fall of man, focusing on the snake.

Francis Bacon

Which author was known as the father of the English essay?

Niccolò Machiavelli

Which author stated, “the ends justify the means?”

George Herbert

Which author was a metaphysical author who wrote in devotional lyrics to focus on personal and emotional aspects of religious life?

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Which author introduced the Italian sonnets to England and was considered the most controversial due to his affair with Anne Boleyn?

What does the following quote related to, “I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember?”

Describes a shift from gentle and intimate lovers to being betrayed.

John Fletcher

Which author was one of the most influential playwrights of the English Renaissance, and was a principal writer for Kings Men and helped shape the tragicomedy genre?

John Donne

Who is known widely known as the “Father of Metaphysical Literature?”

Robert Herrick

Which author was an English poet known for his lyrical verse, love poems, and pastoral themes that expressed his main idea of carpe diem?