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English Final
Greenworld
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Undergraduate 4
12/12/2013

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Term
Name the Poem, Poet:
No blustering husbands to create your fears;
No pangs of childbirth to extort your tears;
Definition
“A Married State” by Katherine Phillips
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Thus are you freed from all the cares that do
Attend on matrimony and a husband too.
Definition
“A Married State” by Katherine Phillips
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A virgin state is crowned with much content;
It’s always happy as it’s innocent.
Definition
“A Married State” by Katherine Phillips
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And in the meads I met a knight,
Clad in carnation color fair;
I did salute this gentle wight:
Definition
“The lively lark stretched forth her wing,” by Edward de Vere
Term
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Then of Desire I ask'd again,
What things did please and what did pain.
Definition
“The lively lark stretched forth her wing,” by Edward de Vere
Term
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He smiled and thus he answered than [then]:
Desire can have no greater pain,
Definition
“The lively lark stretched forth her wing,” by Edward de Vere
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Nor greater joy can be than this:
That to enjoy that others miss.
Definition
“The lively lark stretched forth her wing,” by Edward de Vere
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But when we come where comfort is,
    She never will say no.
Definition
“I care not for these ladies,” by Thomas Campion
Term
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Her when we court and kiss,      
    She cries, “Forsooth, let go!”
Definition
“I care not for these ladies,” by Thomas Campion
Term
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If I love Amaryllis,
She gives me fruit and flowers:
But if we love these ladies,
We must give golden showers.
Definition
“I care not for these ladies,” by Thomas Campion
Term
Name the Poem, Poet:

These ladies must have pillows,
And beds by strangers wrought;
Give me a bower of willows,
Of moss and leaves unbought,
Definition
“I care not for these ladies,” by Thomas Campion
Term
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COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
Definition
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
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A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
Definition
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
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The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
Definition
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
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Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,
Definition
“The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,” by Walter Ralegh
Term
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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,
To wayward winter reckoning yields,
Definition
“The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,” by Walter Ralegh
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A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Definition
“The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,” by Walter Ralegh
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Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
Definition
“The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,” by Walter Ralegh
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And there th' enamour'd fish will stay,
Begging themselves they may betray.
Definition
“The Bait” by John Donne
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Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legs with shells and weeds,
Definition
“The Bait” by John Donne
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That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
Alas! is wiser far than I.
Definition
“The Bait” by John Donne
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Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
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An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
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And your quaint honor turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
          Old time is still a-flying;
And the same flower that smiles today
Definition
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick
Term
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When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
  Times still succeed the former.
Definition
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick
Term
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And, while ye may, go marry;
For, having lost but once your prime,
 You may forever tarry.
Definition
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick
Term
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Of touch or marble; nor canst boast a row
Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold;
Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told,
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
Name the Poem, Poet:
Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames;
And thence the ruddy satyrs oft provoke
The lighter fauns to reach thy Lady’s Oak.
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
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Each bank doth yield thee conies; and the tops,
Fertile of wood, Ashore and Sidney’s copse,
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
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The painted partridge lies in every field,
And for thy mess is willing to be killed.
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
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And if the high-swollen Medway fail thy dish,
Thou hast thy ponds, that pay thee tribute fish,
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
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Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
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Thy lady’s noble, fruitful, chaste withal.
His children thy great lord may call his own,
A fortune in this age but rarely known.
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
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With other edifices, when they see
Those proud, ambitious heaps, and nothing else,
May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells.
Definition
“To Penshurst,” by Ben Jonson
Term
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And where the muses gave their full consent,
I should have power the virtuous to content;
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
Term
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The house received all ornaments to grace it,
And would endure no foulness to deface it.
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
Term
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The trees with leaves, with fruits, with flowers clad,
Embraced each other, seeming to be glad,
Turning themselves to beauteous Canopies,
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
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Oh how me thought each plant, each flower, each tree
Set forth their beauties then to welcome thee!
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
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Unconstant Fortune, thou are most to blame, Who casts us down into so low a frame Where our great friends we cannot daily see, So great a difference is there in degree.
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
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Whereof depriu'd, I euermore must grieue,
Hating blind Fortune, carelesse to relieue.
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer

hate my fate but I cant do anything about it
Term
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Each arbour, banke, each seate, each stately tree,
Lookes bare and desolate now for want of thee;
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
Speaker is sad, the landscape is sad
Term
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When I am dead thy name in this may liue
Wherein I haue perform'd her noble hest,
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
When Lanyer dies, lives on through her poetry.
Term
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You did repeat the pleasures which had passed,
Seeming to grieve they could no longer last.
And with a chaste, yet loving kiss took leave,
Of which sweet kiss I did it soon bereave,
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
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And ever shall, so long as life remains,
Tying my life to her by those rich chains
Definition
“The Description of Cookham,” by Aemilia Lanyer
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Within this sober Frame expect
Work of no Forrain Architect;
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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Near to this gloomy Cloysters Gates
There dwelt the blooming Virgin Thwates,
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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And oft She spent the Summer Suns
Discoursing with the Suttle Nunns.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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Hypocrite Witches, hence avant,
Who though in prison yet inchant!
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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But their lowd'st Cannon were their Lungs;
And sharpest Weapons were their Tongues.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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But War all this doth overgrow:
We Ord'nance Plant and Powder sow.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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The Nursery of all things green
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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But Flow'rs eternal, and divine,
That in the Crowns of Saints do shine.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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Who seem like Israelites to be,
Walking on foot through a green Sea.
To them the Grassy Deeps divide,
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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With whistling Sithe, and Elbow strong,
These Massacre the Grass along:
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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For to this naked equal Flat,
Which Levellers take Pattern at,
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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The River in it self is drown'd,
And Isl's th' astonish Cattle round.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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But I, retiring from the Flood,
Take Sanctuary in the Wood;
And, while it lasts, my self imbark
In this yet green, yet growing Ark;
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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While her glad Parents most rejoice,
And make their Destiny their Choice.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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Oh Thou, that dear and happy Isle
The Garden of the World ere while,
Thou Paradise of four Seas,
Which Heaven planted us to please,
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
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When Gardens only had their Towrs,
And all the Garrisons were Flowrs,
When Roses only Arms might bear,
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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The good he numbers up, and hacks;
As if he mark'd them with the Ax.
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
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The double Wood of ancient Stocks
Link'd in so thick, an Union locks,
It like two Pedigrees appears,
On one hand Fairfax, th' other Veres:
Definition
“Upon Appleton House,” by Andrew Marvell
Term
Name the Poem, Poet
there’s no such thing as leading apes in hell
Definition
“A Married State” – Katherine Phillips
Term
What's the main idea and main advice in “A Married State” by Katherine Phillips
Definition
Advising women not to get married because husbands and children are the source of most women's problems. Childbirth, domestic duties, difficult husbands.
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Main idea and theme of “The lively lark stretched forth her wing” by Edward de Vere
Definition
Cautionary tale of desire: Speaker wants what neighbor has—specifically his woman. Desire's greatest joy is being with a woman coveted by someone else. DESIRE IS SELFISH AND CRUEL. The worst pain is seeing someone else get the woman you want.
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Main idea and theme of “I care not for these ladies” by Thomas Campion
Definition
Song about promiscuous women, and his distaste towards women who desire to be wooed.
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Name the Poem, Poet
there’s no such thing as leading apes in hell
Definition
“A Married State” – Katherine Phillips
Term
What's the main idea and main advice in “A Married State” by Katherine Phillips
Definition
Advising women not to get married because husbands and children are the source of most women's problems. Childbirth, domestic duties, difficult husbands.
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Main idea and theme of “The lively lark stretched forth her wing” by Edward de Vere
Definition
Cautionary tale of desire: Speaker wants what neighbor has—specifically his woman. Desire's greatest joy is being with a woman coveted by someone else. DESIRE IS SELFISH AND CRUEL. The worst pain is seeing someone else get the woman you want.
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Main idea and theme of “I care not for these ladies” by Thomas Campion
Definition
Song about promiscuous women, and his distaste towards women who desire to be wooed. He'd prefer a commoner like a shepherdess.
Term
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Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Definition
“The Bait” by John Donne
Term
Main idea and themes of “The Bait” by John Donne
Definition
Dark Mood. Fish don't want to die, but are going to get caught by bait. Woman (Fisherman/bait) traps and strangles fish (man). Carpe diem. Seduction is painful (for man)!
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Imagery and themes of “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
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Imagery of worms/tombs. Carpe diem philosophy mocking romance
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Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
Definition
“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell
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Main idea and themes of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” – Robert Herrick
Definition
Connect with and appreciate your loved ones because time, aging, and mortality are inevitable. Obviously Carpe Diem. When sun sets you are dead, in the context of the poem.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
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“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” – Robert Herrick
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Main Ideas and themes of “To Penshurt” by Ben Jonson
Definition
Speaking to the house, in support of the crown. Contrary to other poems, speaking of little class animosity, glorifying the ruling class.
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Main Ideas and themes of “The Description of Cookham” by Aemilia Lanyer
Definition
Can you be friends with someone who has more money than you? Drawbacks of class distinction. Religious references to women studying scripture. She'll live on through her poetry.
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Main Ideas of “A New Year's Gift Sent to the Parliament and Army,” an essay by Gerrard Winstanley
Definition
Argument against depression, and for dissolving class structure, while redistributing land to those in need. Parliament enslaves the poor, he wants to get rid of monarchy and people to be equal.
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3 Figurative meanings of Manor House Poems
Definition
Pastoral convention
Nature has an escpae
House reflects England
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Andrew Marvell dedicates "Upon Appleton House" to this war hero.
Definition
Lord Fairfax.
Term
What was Fairfax's sentiments towards the recent happenings in England?
Definition
Fairfax's associate Oliver Cromwell manipulated public sentiment to the point that people turned against Charles, leading to his beheading, which Fairfax never wanted.
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These are the materials foreign architects use to build ostentatious dwellings in "To Penshurst" or "Upon Appleton House."
Definition
What are marble and gold? Manor house poems criticize ornate building materials, wasted space (pillars, domed ceilings), and excess. They value temperance, moderation, and above all else, maintaining the native appearance of a space.
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What did Aemilia Lanyer want? What's her personal history?
Definition
Advocate for a meritocracy based on virtue. Royal musician from a prominent family.
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This is the meaning behind Jacques's speech from AYLI, "all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Definition
comedy deplores isolation, Jacques is an outcast that troubles the play's ending. This speech might mean that we mechanically live our lives, thus we are unthinking, and existence is theatrical, lonely, robotic. Or (since Shakespeare's drama disproves moribund isolation) it may mean that existence is based on the social, and that individuals define existence on one another, etc.
Term
He is the moral center of AYLI
Definition
Who is old Adam
Term
This woman is the mistress of a sheep-shearing festival, a holiday which signals the start of a play's comic resolution
Definition
Perdita
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What are the years of the English Renaissance?
Definition
1485-1649
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This creature tumbles down, "did fall with weeping eyes," and "gives up his ghost." Name the creature, poem, author and what it suggests about the creature.
Definition
What is Wat, the rabbit from Margaret Cavendish's "The Hunting of the Hare." The poem suggests that Wat has an immortal soul.
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God "providently caters to the sparrow," therefore this person gives up his money and trusts that God will care for him.
Definition
Who is old Adam?
Term
These devour the coy mistress's virginity
Name the poem poet too
Definition
What are worms in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress?"
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Spkr to whom+context:"He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education....the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude."
Definition
AYLI, Orlando to Adam. Oliver treats his brother like an animal, but Orlando's inner nature of nobility is obvious to anyone who meets him.
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This man petitioned Parliament in 1650 to obtain free land for the poor.
Definition
Gerrard Winstanley in A New Year's Gift
Term
Name the Poem, Poet:
"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle."
Definition
Christopher Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'
Term
These are four reasons that humans are separate, uniquely privileged species singled out for solitary elevation and aptness according to the theory of Human Exceptionalism.
Definition
What is an immortal soul, Genesis chapters 1-3, reason, restraint of emotions, language, technology, etc.
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These are reasons Katherine Philips advises women against marriage.
Definition
What are the pains of childbirth, domestic labor, difficult husbands?
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This man ventriloquizes the voice of a female in reply to Marlowe's carpe diem lyric.
Definition
Who is Sir Walter Ralegh?
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These four couples wed at the end of "As You Like It."
Definition
Who are Rosalind and Orlando, Phoebe and Silvius, Audrey and Touchstone, and Celia and Oliver.
Term
This poet steals a kiss from a tree to be closer to her mistress.
Definition
Who is Aemilia Lanyer?
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Jealous king and childhood friend of Polixenes.
Definition
Winter's Tale; Leontes
Term
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Queen falsely accused of infedelity. Dies of grief and comes back to life
Definition
Winter's Tale; Hermione
Term
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Abandoned daughter who falls in love with Florizel
Definition
Winter's Tale; Perdita
Term
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King whose son falls in love with Perdita
Definition
Winter's Tale; Polixenes
Term
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Defies his father to marry who he believes to be a lowly shepherd's daughter
Definition
Winter's Tale; Florizel
Term
Name the Character and Play:
An honest nobleman who refusesto poison Polixenes, and instead flees and serves Polixenes
Definition
Winter's Tale; Camillo
Term
Name the Character and Play:
A noblewoman who fiercely defends her friend Hermione's good name. Unrelenting in her condemnation of Leontes
Definition
Winter's Tale; Paulina
Term
Name the Character and Play:
A pickpocket who steals from the clown at the sheepshearing, but ultimately aids Perdita and Florizel's escape.
Definition
Winter's Tale; Autolycus
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Paulina's husband, and also a loyal defender of Hermione. Tasked with abandoning the baby Perdita on the Bohemian coast.
Definition
Winter's Tale; Antigonus
Term
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Leontes and Hermione's son. He dies, perhaps of grief, after his father wrongly imprisons his mother.
Definition
Winter's Tale; Mamillius
Term
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A lord who's sent to Delphi to ask the Oracle about Hermione's guilt.
Definition
Winter's Tale; Cleomenes
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Quick tempered daughter of Baptista Minola
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Kate/Katherine
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Absentminded, wealthy father of Kate and Bianca
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Baptista Minola
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Wealthy young student who falls in love with Bianca and tutors her with the help of Gremio
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Lucentio/ Cambio
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Bianca’s rival suitors at the beginning of the play that are rejected
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Gremio and Hortensio
Term
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Petruchio's servant/ fool of the play
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Grumio
Term
Name the Character and Play:
The principal character in the play’s brief Induction, a drunken tinker, tricked by a mischievous nobleman into thinking that he is really a lord.
Definition
Taming of the Shrew; Christopher Sly
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Heroine, daughter of Duke Senior. Disguised as Ganymede.
Definition
As You Like it; Rosalind
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Oliver's brother, who doesn't have proper education. Romantic match of Rosalind.
Definition
As You Like it; Orlando
Term
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Father of Rosalind, banished by Duke Frederick. Lives in Arden
Definition
As You Like it; Duke Senior
Term
Name the Character and Play:
lord who accompanies Duke Senior into exile in the Forest. Has a hopelessly melancholy disposition
Definition
As You Like it; Jaques
Term
Name the Character and Play:
The daughter of Duke Frederick and Rosalind’s bff. calls herself Aliena, falls for Oliver
Definition
As You Like it; Celia
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Cruel and volatile, he banishes his niece. Father of Celia. In the end embarks on a monastic life.
Definition
As You Like it; Duke Frederick.
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Vulgar and narrowminded clown who accompanies Rosalind and Celia to Ardenne.
Definition
As You Like it; Touchstone
Term
Name the Character and Play:
oldest son of Sir Rowland de Bois. Hates his brother until his life is saved by him. Falls for Celia
Definition
As You Like it; Oliver
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Pathetic dude who's in love with Phoebe and eventually marries her.
Definition
As You Like it; Silvius
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Bitchy shepherdess who's in love who falls for Rosalind as Ganymede, but marries Silvius
Definition
As You Like it; Phoebe
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Beacon of loyalty former servant of Roland de Bois who accompanies Orlando to Arden and funds the trip
Definition
As You Like it; old Adam.
Term
Name the Character and Play:
A shepherd who gives love advice to his friend Silvius
Definition
As You Like it; Corin
Term
Name the Character and Play:
Marries Touchstone. Dimwitted shepherdess
Definition
As You Like it; Audrey
Term
Name the Character and Play:
A young country boy who is in love with Audrey.
Definition
As You Like it; William
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