The Early Seventeenth Century
(1603-1660)
Terms to Know:
- Calvinism (662)
- Jacobean (663)
- Metaphysical School (671)
- Caroline (672)
Discussion Questions:
714:
- Explain the difference,
according to the editors, between Elizabeth
I and James I in terms of their view of the status of the
monarch.
State and Church: 1603-40
- Why did civil war break out in 1642? (See also 720, 734ff)
719:
- Describe
the Gunpowder plot.
720:
- Explain
the significance of the King James Bible (1611).
Literature and Culture: 1603-40
722:
- Explain the concept of the
Ptolemaic universe (See also A55).
- Explain
the concepts of analogy and order.
727:
- Explain the licensing system
for printers and theater companies.
The Revolutionary Era: 1640-60
734:
- Why was
there a revolution and why was Charles Stuart executed
(January 30, 1649)?
- What important concepts, according to the editors,
emerged out of the revolution?
Literature and Culture: 1640-60
742:
- In what ways, according to the editors, was Milton a
republican?
Other Discussion Questions:
714:
- Describe the office held by Oliver Cromwell.
- List the Stuart monarchs (see also A46-A47).
715-16:
- Describe the financial
situation that greeted James I upon his ascension to the
throne.
- Describe his response to this
situation.
716:
- Explain the period's "complex
attitudes toward same-sex relationships" (716).
717:
- Explain the significance of
the 1604 treaty with Spain.
- Explain the influence of
seventeenth-century entrepreneurship.
718:
- Describe the Elizabethan
religious compromise.
721:
- Explain the Calvinist views
espoused by Puritans.
722:
- Describe the Bishops' Wars of
1639 and 1640.
- Explain the concept of the
four bodily humors.
724:
- Explain the significance, according to the editors,
of William Harvey's discoveries.
- Explain the significance, according to the editors,
of Galileo's discoveries.
725:
- Describe the system of
literary patronage.
- What is a Jacobean or
Caroline aristocrat (see also 733)?
727:
- When did authorial copyright
become a reality?
728:
- Explain the influence of
censorship on Seventeenth Century theater.
- Describe the changing
audience cultivated by the King's Men.
729:
- Describe the change in poetic
fashion during James's reign.
730:
- Explain Jonson's views on the
role of the gifted poet in society.
- How does Donne's poetry
differ from Jonson's?
731:
- How, according to the
editors, do sexual and religious love share "a common
vocabulary" for Donne (731)?
732:
- What is the familiar essay?
736:
- What, according to the editors,
did the suspension of censorship accomplish?
737:
- What was the Rump Parliament?
738:
740:
- How were English politics
different after the ascension of Charles II?
- According to the editors, in
what ways was the English civil war "disastrous [for] ... the
theater" (740)?
- What characterized the "love lyric"?
741:
- In what ways did the revolutionary era give "new
impetus" to writing by women and "non-elites" (741)?
