ENGB35H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jar Jar Binks, Geoffrey Chaucer, Simile
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Must remember 1066: changes course of history/linguistic development. Now the king is not above the law. Friend of becket, who is now martyr of canterbury. Major events: spanish armada, a storm destroys them. James stuart steps in and ends tudor era. Ends that bc he needs money for scottish. Rebellion who rebelled because they didn"t want his new prayer book. 1642: charles tries to arrest 5 members of parliament. 1649: charles executed while he was still the king. Arrested for treason, made a deal with scotts, didn"t go well. 1653: cromwell disbands parliament as well and becomes lord protector. Richard cromwell, very brief lord protector, so they call back parliament. Marvell is a member of parliament, welcomes back charles. Milton is part of commonwealth and wrote a lot about it especially defending charles 1st execution. Richard 3rd is bad bc of tudor propaganda. Caedmon is latin paraphrase into old english text. Mary wrote in anglo-norman: compares and looks french.
