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Great Literature of the Renaissance

Great Literature of the Renaissance. Renaissance Literature. Some famous authors of the Renaissance are Dante and Machiavelli from Italy, and Shakespeare from England. Dante (1265 – 1321).

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Great Literature of the Renaissance

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  1. Great Literature of the Renaissance

  2. Renaissance Literature • Some famous authors of the Renaissance are Dante and Machiavelli from Italy, and Shakespeare from England.

  3. Dante (1265 – 1321) • Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, The Divine Comedy, is the basis of the modern Italian language. A fresco of Dante

  4. Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) • Niccolò Machiavelliwas a Florentine political thinker and historian. • The Prince details the methods a leader can use to gain power. • According to Machiavelli, it is important that the leader be willing to do anything necessary to maintain power. • However, Machiavelli says that above all, the leader must not be hated.

  5. Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) • William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. • Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language, and one of the greatest of all time.

  6. Romeo and Juliet • Romeo and Juliet is a play about the fate of two young lovers who would do anything to be together. • It is the most famous of his plays and the most famous love story in history. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

  7. Modern Adaptationsof Romeo and Juliet “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

  8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream • A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells three stories connected by a celebration of a wedding. • In one scene a Fairy King turns a simple weaver into a donkey and enchants the Fairy Queen so that she falls in love with him. “Oh, what fools these mortals be.”

  9. Julius Caesar • It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Shakespeare plays that are based on true events from history. “Beware the Ides of March”

  10. Hamlet “To be, or not to be, That is the question.”

  11. Hamlet is a story of a prince whose father is killed by his uncle. When his uncle marries Hamlet’s mother and takes the throne, it starts a series of ghost-sightings and swordfights that end in murder and death.

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