Some Renaissance/Early Modern links

Thomas More by Hans Holbein

Periodization, 1399-1660

Outline of historical events, 14th-16th c. (ppt)

Evolution of the drama

Play of Mankind (excerpt)

Renaissance Humanism (from the Norton Anthology)

Renaissance rhetoric (and some lists of rhetorical figures: I II )

Copia exercises: I  II  III   and an example from King Lear and a modern one

Shakespearean insult generators:  I II III

Famous phrases (KJB 1 / KJB 2)