Chapter 8        Reform: The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation

 

 

Christian Humanism (Northern humanism)

lay piety – Lay Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life

Desiderius Erasmus

 

Protestant Reformation
 

Martin Luther

John Calvin

the Anglican Church

 

Anabaptism

 

Sixteenth Century Literature
 

Desiderius Erasumus
Satire
Life as Folly

Cervantes
Don Quixote
 


Montaigne
“father of the personal essay”


Shakespeare
Golden Age of England
“the king’s men”


Sonnet # 18
    extended metaphor


The Shakespearean Stage
    “totus mundus agit histrionem”


Shakespeare’s Plays
    Commedia dell’arte
    history plays, comedies, tragedies
    psychological motivations


Shakespeare’s Language
   
blank verse
    iambic pentameter


Jan Van Eyck

Protestant Reformation and Printmaking

 

Albrecht Dürer

Heironymus Bosch


Music and the Reformation
chorale
Elizabethan music
madrigal

 

BEYOND THE WEST: Japanese Theatre - Nō Drama
stylistic characteristics

masks

Japanese Theatre: Kabuki
“song-dance-art”
1616 – Government edit
costumes, wigs, make-up