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English Literature, 1600-1688

English Literature, 1600-1688. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? Shakespeare’s treatment of death Four mature tragedies Macbeth King Lear Othello Hamlet. English Drama After Shakespeare. Jacobean drama Ben Jonson—comedies John Webster—tragedies

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English Literature, 1600-1688

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  1. English Literature, 1600-1688

  2. Shakespeare’s Tragedies • Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? • Shakespeare’s treatment of death • Four mature tragedies • Macbeth • King Lear • Othello • Hamlet

  3. English Drama After Shakespeare • Jacobean drama • Ben Jonson—comedies • John Webster—tragedies • Censorship in mid-17th century • Restoration revival

  4. King James Bible • King James I (1603-1625) • Hampton Court Conference • Team of 50 scholars • Influence of William Tyndale (1494-1536) • Translated in 1520 • Executed for treason • Bedrock of the Church of England • Saturated the English mind

  5. Metaphysical Poets • 17th-century intellectuals • Key ideas: “wit” and “conceit” • John Donne (1572-1631) • Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) • Naughtiness • “The Flea” • “To His Coy Mistress” • Holiness: “Death, Be Not Proud”

  6. John Milton (1608-1674) • Puritan republican • Defended individual freedoms • Paradise Lost (1667) • Epic poem • Genesis—Fall of Man • New poetic language • Tension resulting from the felix culpa idea

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