Context (Junior Cert English): Flashcards
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Renaissance began in Italy (century)
Renaissance began in Italy (century)
14th century
Renaissance emphasis (2 key ideals)
Renaissance emphasis (2 key ideals)
Individualism & intellectual freedom
Elizabethan boys' education location
Elizabethan boys' education location
Grammar school from age 6-7
Elizabethan girls' education location
Elizabethan girls' education location
At home
Ideal Elizabethan woman traits (4)
Ideal Elizabethan woman traits (4)
Chaste, modest, obedient, dependent on men
Beatrice's cry re: gender limits
Beatrice's cry re: gender limits
O God that I were a man!
Female chastity expectation in Elizabethan era
Female chastity expectation in Elizabethan era
Maintain virginity until marriage
Cuckold definition
Cuckold definition
Man whose wife had been unfaithful
Much Ado About Nothing genre
Much Ado About Nothing genre
Shakespearean comedy
'Nothing' sounds like this word meaning 'observing'
'Nothing' sounds like this word meaning 'observing'
Noting
5 acts of play structure in order
5 acts of play structure in order
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement
Act 3 climax event
Act 3 climax event
Claudio rejects Hero at altar
Setting of Much Ado About Nothing
Setting of Much Ado About Nothing
Messina, Sicily