1. RENAISSANCE ENGLAND MARJE MAASEN INGLISE KIRJANDUS 1O KLASS C.R.JAKOBSONI NIM.GÜMNAASIUM VILJANDI MAAKOND

2. POLITICAL SITUATION 4 THE WAR OF ROSES ENDED IN 1485 4 NEITHER THE YORKS NOR THE LANCASTERS WON 4 A NEW DYNASTY, THE TUDOR DYNASTY, CAME TO THE THRONE

3. HENRY VII 4 BUILT A NEW NATION - BASED STATE 4 COULD AVOID CONFLICTS WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN 4 LAID A GOOD ECONOMIC BASIS FOR HIS STATE 4 BUILT A POWERFUL MERCHANT FLEET 4 ENGLAND BEGAN TO DOMINATE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

4. HENRY VIII 4 HE WAS A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR AND AMBITIOUS POLITICIAN 4 DISSOLVED THE MONASTERIES 4 THE HAUNTING PROBLEM - A MALE HEIR 4 MADE HIMSELF THE HEAD OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH 4 QUARRELLED WITH THE POPE

5. CATHERINE OF ARAGON 4 COULD NOT GIVE THE STATE A MALE HEIR TO THE THRONE 4 HAD A DAUGHTER CALLED MARY 4 HENRY DIVORCED FROM HER TO MARRY ANNE BOLEYN 4 WAS AN ARDENT CATHOLIC AND BROUGHT PRINCESS MARY UP IN THE SAME SPIRIT

6. ANNE BOLEYN 4 HENRY VIII MARRIED HER AFTER THE DIVORCE 4 GAVE BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER CALLED ELIZABETH 4 WAS BEHEADED IN THE TOWER BECAUSE HENRY VIII SUSPECTED HER OF PLOTTING

7. MARY TUDOR 4 DAUHGTER OF HENRY VIII AND CATHERINE OF ARAGON 4 WAS A TRUE CATHOLIC 4 PURSUED PROTESTANTS AND EXECUTED THEM 4 ALSO KNOWN AS BLOODY MARY

8. ELIZABETH I 4 DAUGHTER OF HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN 4 MADE PEACE WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN 4 BUILT A LARGE FLEET 4 ENCOURAGED THE CREATION OF COLONIES ABROAD - VIRGINIA 4 IRELAND BECAME AN ENGLISH COLONY 4 WALES ACCEPTED ENGLISH ADMINISTRATION IN 1536-1543

9. JAMES I 4 SON OF MARY STUART 4 FOLLOWED ELIZABETH TO THE THRONE BECAUSE SHE HAD NO HEIR 4 VERY HARD ON PROTESTANTS IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND 4 HE WAS ALSO KING JAMES VI IN SCOTLAND 4 GUNPOWDER PLOT WAS ORGANIZED AGAINST HIM

10. GUNPOWDER PLOT 4 CATHOLICS WERE NOT SATISFIED WITH JAMES I AS A RULER 4 THE AIM - TO BLOW UP THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT 4 NOVEMBER 5, 1605 4 GUY FAWKES WAS CAUGHT AND THROWN TO THE TOWER 4 LATER ON HE WAS EXECUTED

11. MIGRATION TO AMERICA 4 JAMES I WAS VERY HARD ON PROTESTANTS IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND 4 IN 1620-21 THEY EMIGRATED TO AMERICA 4 THE SHIP WAS CALLED THE MAYFLOWER 4 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS CALLED NEW PLYMOUTH

12. LIFE IN ENGLAND 4 ENGLAND ENTERED THE ERA OF CAPITALISM 4 THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON LANDS BY LANDOWNERS 4 THEIR AIM - TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SHEEP TO GET MORE WOOL 4 PEASANTS WERE DEPRIVED OF THE LAND 4 MANY PEASANTS BECAME HOMELESS

13. SCIENCE AND LEARNING 4 PRINTINGG WAS INVENTED IN GERMANY AND CAXTON BROUGHT THE SKILL TO ENGLAND IN 1476 4 GRAMMAR SCHOOLS WERE FOUNDED WHERE LATIN, GREEK, ANCIENT HISTORY AND ENGLISH WERE TAUGHT 4 LITERACY SPREAD QUICKLY 4 PROTESTANT CHURCHES WERE SET UP

14. LITERATURE AND ART 4 RENAISSANCE MEANS THE REBIRTH OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN ART AND LITERATURE 4 IT WAS FULL OF JOY OF LIFE 4 IT GLORIFIED THE BEAUTY OF MAN 4 MAN HAD THE RIGHT TO ENJOY LIFE

15. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMA 4 DRAMA BECAME VERY POPULAR 4 THE FIRST THEATRE HOUSES “THE GLOBE” AND “THE THEATRE” WERE BUILT 4 FIRST COMPANIES OF ACTORS WERE FORMED

16. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 4 HE IS THE GREATEST OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE WRITERS 4 HE WROTE COMEDIES, SUCH AS “THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”,”THE TAMING OF THE SHREW” 4 HE WROTE TRAGEDIES, SUCH AS “HAMLET”, ROMEO AND JULIET”, “OTHELLO”, 4 HE WROTE SONNETS 4 HE WROTE HISTORICAL PLAYS