Renaissance Test Study Guide Mr. Hannan To prepare for the test on out study of the English Renaissance, review the following materials: The Study Guide: English Renaissance, pp. 190-211 The notes you took on the lecture about sonnets and Shakespeare’s sonnet cycle The activity sheet on Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt” Then these poems: “Whoso List to Hunt” — 215 Shakespeare’s sonnets 18, 29, 116, 130 (activity sheet) and the notes you took as we studied them “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” — Marlowe, 233 “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” — Raleigh, 235 Also, find the answers to the following questions and then study them. They are taken from the material you read from pages 283-296: 1. From what do some scholars think medieval English drama evolved? 2. What are miracle and mystery plays about? 3. What are morality plays about? 4. Why did Shakespeare, in Henry V, refer to the Globe theater as a “wooden O”? 5. What was a groundling, and how much did they pay to watch a play? 6. What did people expect when they went to the theater besides seeing a tragedy or comedy? 7. What did Shakespeare write to go into almost all of his plays to satisfy this expectation? 8. There is no actual record of Shakespeare’s birth date, but it is surmised to have been three days before the recorded date of his baptism or Christening. What is that date? 9. How old was Shakespeare when he married? What was his wife’s maiden name and how old was she? 10. Name Shakespeare’s children. 11. What was the name of Shakespeare’s acting company during the “years of prosperity at the end of the 16th century? 12. What was the company’s name during the reign of King James I? Why was the name changed? 13. How did the Globe catch fire and under what circumstances? 14. What was the date of Shakespeare’s death? 15. Who played the parts of women and girls in Shakespeare’s plays? 16. Looking through the information given on pages 290-293 about the dates of Shakespeare’s plays, find four types of plays Shakespeare wrote during his career. Format Multiple Choice, Fill in the blanks (including some important dates), Identify passages from the Marlowe and Raleigh poems Questions about one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (meanings of lines, etc.) Short answer, including definitions of sonnet, the various sonnet parts, iambic pentameter. Be able to explain the difference between the English and Italian sonnet forms. Value: 100 points Test Date: _______________________________