Doctor Faustus as a renaissance tragedy - diploma paper

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INTRODUCTION

Renaissance , the ‘rebirth’ of literature, art, and learning that progressively transformed European culture from the mid‐14th century in Italy to the mid‐17th century in England, strongly influenced by the rediscovery of classical Greek and Latin literature, and accelerated by the development of printing. The Renaissance is commonly held to mark the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern Western world, although the problems of dating this process have caused much debate: the existence of a significant renaissance of European learning in the 12th century is now accepted, while the 18th‐century Enlightenment is a direct continuation of the Renaissance's intellectual tendencies. However, the term normally refers to the combined intellectual and artistic transformations of the 15th and 16thcenturies, including the emergence of humanism, Protestant individualism, Copernican astronomy, and the discovery of America. In literary terms, the Renaissance may be seen as a new tradition running from Petrarch and Boccaccio in Italy to Jonson and Milton in England, embracing the work of the of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare; it is marked by a new self‐confidence in vernacular literatures, a flourishing of lyric poetry, and a revival of such classical forms as epic and pastoral literature...

CONTENTS:

1. INTRODUCTION 3
2. DR FAUSTUS AS A REBELLION 9
3. CONSPIRACY THEORY 14
4. FAUSTUS AS A GENUINE SCHOLAR 19
5. CONCLUSION 24
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY 26