The role of Renaissance Humanism
1. Compose a well developed paragraph. Quote the literature and introduction section to support your answer. Compare and contrast the role of Renaissance Humanism (16th Century section pg 362-363 in introduction) as moral instruction found in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. 2. Compose a well developed paragraph. Quote the literature to support your answer. Explain how two of the reading assignments present how the culture has started to value an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences as the primary source and subject for literary art. 3. Compose a well developed paragraph. Quote the literature to support your answer. Explain the role of and/or the absence of women in two texts. How is authority expressed as a male-centered role? 4. After reading the introduction to the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century, select Two of the sections of that reading assignment. For example The Court and City and State and Church, 1603-40 a. List three main ideas from the section b. Explain why you think these ideas are important to understand the literary eras. c. Quote the information from that section to support those three main ideas. Use MLA format: 1. Signal phrase introducing and contextualizing information, "quote the information word for word from the text that you think is important to understand that main idea & quot; (6). d. Explain, with two sentences, why the information in the quote is important to understand the complexity of the Sixteenth or Early Seventeenth Centuries
