Portrayal of Puritans:
1. Twelfth Night: 1216-1217
2.
Doctor Faustus
3. Dutchess of Malfi 1623
Deviation of Iambic Pentameter and Petrarchan Sonnets:
Lines do not follow the normal syllable stresses.
Mocking Love
1. Sonnet 18
2. Sonnet 116-Line 1, different sonnet. Time will change love, sarcastic
3. Mocking poems about love, but not love itself-Sonnet 130
Nightly Visions: Where do
the authors get these inspirations?
1. Blazing World
2. Paradise Lost
Sprezzatura- Italian, Make
everything look easy, Renaissance authors practice
Petrarchan Sonnets:
Pastoral:
1. Setting created by the author, imaginary place that may represent a real
place. Called by a different name. Wonderful and horribly things happen.
a. Blazing World
b. Faerie Queene
c. Dutchess of Malfi
d.
Twelfth Night
e.
Paradise Lost
Au bade: Lover’s song
after love. Morning after poems.
1. “Sun Rising”
2. Dr. Faustus Song by Feste
Melancholy:
1. Longing or yearning that may be known or unknown, sorrow for loss of
better times. Religion strife, scientific discoveries.
a. “To Heaven”
b. Twelfth Night, Feste’s last song
Carpe Diem Poems and Sex poems: John Donne—Sex, God,
Death
1. “The Flea” 1373
2. “Sun Rising” 1376
Queen Elizabeth I:
1. Speeches:
a. House of Commons 753
i.
Parliament concerned, need heir.
ii.
Cannot make hasty decision, cannot decide
iii.
Cunning, safety, right guy
iv.
Confident, manipulation
b. Joint Declaration 754
i.
King James VI of Scotland, Mary, House pressures to
marry again
ii.
Get married or establish succession: Trust in God,
problems succession causes, be patient
iii.
Succession against law to write down
1. Treasonous
2. Rhetoric: Trust me, Let God lead to right person, pathos.
3. Confident: Elizabeth
c. Letter to Mary 757
i.
Forced to advocate
1. Plots against Elizabeth
2. Strange marriages
3. Husband died, “fell down stairs”
a. Grieve for husband, do not get caught up in plot
b. Elizabeth loves them, “do as I say”
c. Intelligent and diplomatic
Queen Elizabeth references:
1. Faerie Queene
a. Immitated Chaucer
b. Success, Nationalism
c. 1 year after sinking of Spanish Armada
d. Establish Patronage w/ Elizabeth
e. Patronage for Life
i.
Epic
1. Catalogs
2. Quests
3. Knightly virtues
4. Allegory-Dark conceit, hidden metaphor
a. Catholics bad
i.
Political, religious, knightly and courtly virtues
ii.
Propaganda:
1. Cave in forest
2. Beast in cave, feeds and explodes
3. Archemago-Satan
a. Go to his house, ,cannot trust people in black
b. 1st or highest magician
c. Dream sent
i.
Una dream, temptation, Catholic sorcerer
4. Gloriana-Elezabeth
5. Lamb lady-Anglican church
a. Proclaiming to pope, Elizabeth is legit
6. Dragon- representing Catholicism—Slay dragon, is it dead?
a. Talons, dies, open eyes? 8-14
7. Knight cannot marry until questing is done. Ever going to wipe out
Catholicism?
a. First loyalty to Queen
2. Blazing World
3. “To Penshurst”
Passionate Shepherd-Marlowe
Nymphs Reply-Raleigh
The Lie-Raleigh
1. Against Renaissance
2. Love, lust, time flies, carpe diem, Religion
Psalm 52
Doctor Faustus:
Twelfth Night
1. Pastoral: Illyria
2. Gender roles (see Notes)
3. Illyria, possibilities for love
4. Marriage civilizes Illyria
5. Puritans seeking power, should not have it
6. Renaissance self-fashioning-reconstructing identity, Aristocrats
patronize artist to look feminine.
7. Malvolio Banished
a. Wanted power, did not fit in with others, downer, mopey, no place in
pastoral world
b. Threat to Illyria, England
8. Feste’s song
a. Life goes on, people are different, reflection on Malvolio
b. Meloncholic, gives something for the audience to think about, artificial
Sonnet 87
1. Line five irregular, transactional nature change in sonnet, possessive
to passive, power to possess, power to give
2. Illyria-Dream, Petrarchan, love, sense of loss that was a dream
3. Transactional Language
“To Penshurst” Jonsen
1. Converted from Catholic to Anglican… Really?
2. Brand on thumb
3. Royalist
4. Loyal to Elizabeth and James
5. Conservative
6. Things will be easy for “everyone” to believe in system
“To Heaven”
1. Meloncholic
2. Ashamed to come to god, too many religions
3. Have faith and do believe, feel in your “gut” should feel good about it
Sonnet 130
1. Petrarchan catalog again
Stuart age:
John Donne-Sex, God, Death
“The Flea”
1. Carpe diem
2. Sex and exchange
“Sun Rising”
1. Au bad- morning after sex poem
2. Bed center of universe
3. Sun/son pun guilty
Sonnet 14
1. Inner turmoil: God, himself, satan
2. Already taken by Satan, God banging on door, ramming rod
“Good Friday riding westard”
1. Away from god
Dutchess of
Malfi-John Webster
1. Corrupt court, ran by two evil brothers: Church and State
2. Nastalgiea for Elizabeth
3. Pointing to Golden Age gone
4. Look at inquiry presentations
5. Revenge tragedy
a. Hero wronged
b. Pile of bodies
c. Attempted revenge
d. Agonized speeches
i.
Death, and life after death
6. Make her crazy with other crazy people
a. References to:
i.
Sciece, sex, religion, Puritans=insane
“To His Coy Mistress”
1. Historic references
a. Ganges River
b. Biblical references
2. Carpe Diem poem
3. Romantic or Petrarchan?
Paradise Lost-Milton
1. Purtian?
2. Cambridge education
3. Against marriage
a. Themes in Paradise Lost
i.
Epic
ii.
Nightly visions
iii.
Rhetoric
iv.
Process on how getting inspiration to write
v.
Prophet?
vi.
Real story of Eden, translated, prophet of England
4. Satan twisted character, twisted rhetoric, fallen
5. Eve, obeying rhetoric, restates Adam, does not command but asks
6. Adam, straightforward, demands obedience, does not ask, tells
7. Fallen, Pastoral, people have fallen, reconciliation shows God’s way to
man, re-introducing monarchy.
“Salve Deus Rex”-Lanyer
1. Not Eve’s fault, men in control
2. Elizabeth allusions
a. What was it like when women ruled?
3. Adam and James the first
4. Eden during Elizabethan rule
5. Political: Royalist Men fallen further than women
Blazing World-Cavendish
1. One together, inflammatory line 1892
2. Dutchess persuaded by spirits not have own world
3. Puritan seeking power a slight, create your own world in your head
“Easter Wings”-Herbert
1. Emblem poem
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