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 SUMMARY 

Unit 2

1​. Tristan and Isolde

​1.1.​ Worksheet
​ 1.2.​ Worksheet corrected
2​. Dante
3​. Petrarch
4​. Boccaccio
​ 4.1. ​Questions
​4.2.​ My answer to Ariadna’s questions
​4.3.​ Ariadna’s questions
5​. Timeline

Unit 3

1​. Humanism and Renaissance

​1.1.​ Humanism
​ 1.2. ​Renaissance
2​. François Rabelais
​2.1.​ About him
​2.2.​ Gargantua and Pantagruel
3​. Shakespeare
4​. Hamlet: To be or not to be, the experience
5​. Timeline
 UNIT 2 
1. Tristan and Isolde 
1.1. Worksheet
Origins: This book was written by Thomas on 1165, in the middle of XII Century, and it come
from Ireland celtic culture and have influences of king Arthur legends and of many books more.
Setting (time and places): ​The book is situated on the middle of XII century and happens in all
the United Kingdom, especially in Cornwall and Ireland.
Main characters: In the story there's a lot of characters but the main characters are Tirstan,
Isolde of the Fair and king Mark.
Initial plot: This story of love which is about a man, Tristan, and a woman, Isolde and all two fall
in love because of a potion. But they can't be together beacause Tristan's uncle, Cornwall's king
Mark, fall in love with Isolde and they married. Although this, love is stronger than nothing so the
couple do everything to be together in spite of what can happen, or what the people can say.
However, the traitors play a dirty trick on Tristan and he have to leave to Gales where he find
and other Isolde, Isolde of the White Hands, and she fall in love with him, so they get married,
but he is not in love with this Isolde so he will return to Cornwall. In fact of vengance, Isolde of
the White Hands deny her help to save her husband and he died, when Isolde know that her
love died she died too.

Questions

1.
2. Where is Cornwall? Cronwall is a country situated on the South of England
(United Kingdom).
3.
4. Who is Mark? Mark is one of the main characters of the story, he is the king of
Cornwall, Tristan's uncle and later Isolde's husband.
5.
6. Who is Whiteflower? Whiteflower is Tristan's mother.
7.
8. Who is Rivalen? He is Tristan's father.
9.
10. Where does Tristan come from? He is from Tintagel.
11.
12. Why is he called Tristan? He is called Tristan because when he was borning
his mother was very sad, so this name came from his mom's sadness.
13.
14. Where is Isolde from? Isolde is from Ireland
 15.
16. .Who does Mark marry? ​Mark married Isolde the Fair.
17.
18. Who is Morholt? Morholt is Isolda's uncle and the king of Ireland.
19.
20. Who does Tristan marry? Tristan married Isolde of the White Hands, sister of
Isolde of the White Hands, Kaherdin's sister.
21.
22. Give two examples of strong friendship. Kaherdine and Tristan friendship
was one of the most strong friendship, and also Isolde and her maid; Brangwain.
23.
24. Who are the traitors? ​Tristan had four tritors; Ganelon, Andret,
Godoine, Denoalen.
25.
26. How does Tristan meet Isolde? Their first met was in the beach, when Isolde's
found Tristan injured after the war with Morholt, and she nurses him back to life.
27.
28. How does Tristan die? On his way back to Iseult of the White Hands, Tristan
was ambushed, and wounded with a poisoned spear.
29.
30. Why does Isolde die? ​Because of her sadness in fact of Tristan's love, she won't
live without him.

Explain two scenes which you particularly like in the story. Give the references: chapter
and page.

1​. I really like the scene when Isolde die for her love, because she do not want a life without
him, so I really love this scene because is very beautiful and also sad, and I think that if you truly
love someone you can do everything without take importance to consequences.

This scene is in the last chapter; XVIII, on page 110.

2​. And also I really like the scene when Kaherdí give permission to Tristan to can leave his wife,
Isolde of the White Hands, and can go with his real love, Isolde. It is a really symolism of
friendship to change your sister's happiness for a friend can go and love his actually love, and
also is a good fact of brother to can make that his sister don't continue suffering.

This scene is in the chapter XVI, on page 88.

1.2. Worksheet corrected
Origins: This book was written by Thomas on 1165, in the middle of XII Century, and it come
from Ireland ​C​eltic culture and have influences of king Arthur legends and of many books more.
+​ ​This book is based on a well-known legend about Tristan and Isolde.
Setting (time and places): ​The book is situated on the middle of XII century and happens in all
the United Kingdom, especially in Cornwall and Ireland ​and Gales​.
Main characters: In the story there's a lot of characters but the main characters are Tirstan,
Isolde of the Fair and king Mark. ​+ ​Morholt, Isolde of the White Hands, Rivalen, Whiteflower,
Kaherdin, Governal, Brangwain
Initial plot: This story of love which is about a man, Tristan, and a woman, Isolde and all two fall
in love because of a potion. But they can't be together beacause Tristan's uncle, Cornwall's king
Mark, fall in love with Isolde and they married. Although this, love is stronger than nothing so the
couple do everything to be together in spite of what can happen, or what the people can say.
However, the traitors play a dirty trick on Tristan and he have to leave to Gales where he find
and other Isolde, Isolde of the White Hands, and she fall in love with him, so they get married,
but he is not in love with this Isolde so he will return to Cornwall. In fact of vengance, Isolde of
the White Hands deny her help to save her husband and he died, when Isolde know that her
love died she died too.
At the beginning of the story we are told about Tristan’s birth, his
childhood and who his parents were. It also explains how Tristan was educated and
where and how his parents died.

Questions

1.
2. Where is Cornwall? Cronwall is a country situated on the South of ​Wales
(United Kingdom).
3.
4. Who is Mark? Mark is one of the main characters of the story, he is the king of
Cornwall, Tristan's uncle and later Isolde's husband. ​+ Also Whiteflower's sister.

5.
6. Who is Whiteflower? Whiteflower is Tristan's mother and + King Mark's
sister.
7.
8. Who is Rivalen? He is Tristan's father and ​+ Whiteflower's wife.
9.
10. Where does Tristan come from? He is from ​Leonis​.
11.
12. Why is he called Tristan? He is called Tristan because when he was borning
his mother was very sad, so this name came from his mom's sadness.
13.
 14. Where is Isolde from? Isolde is from Ireland​.
15.
16. Who does Mark marry? ​Mark marrie​s Isolde the Fair.
17.
18. Who is Morholt? He is powerful giant knight from Ireland. He wants to get the
money that Marks owes to Ireland and goes to Tintagel to bring a message
from Irleand to king Mark. He is killed by Tristan.
19.
20. Who does Tristan marry? Tristan married Isolde of the White Hands,
Kaherdin's sister.
21.
22. Give two examples of strong friendship. Kaherdine and Tristan friendship
was one of the most strong friendship, and also Isolde and her maid; Brangwain.
23.
24. Who are the traitors? ​Tristan had four tritors; Ganelon, Andret,
Godoine, Denoalen.
25.
26. How does Tristan meet Isolde? Their first met was in the beach, when Isolde's
found Tristan injured after the war with Morholt, and she nurses him back to life.
27.
28. How does Tristan die? On his way back to ​Isolde of the White Hands,
Tristan was ambushed, and wounded with a poisoned spear.
29.
30. Why does Isolde die? ​Because of her sadness in fact of Tristan's love, she won't
live without him.

Explain two scenes which you particularly like in the story. Give the references: chapter
and page.

1​. I really like the scene when Isolde die for her love, because she do not want a life without
him, so I really love this scene because is very beautiful and also sad, and I think that if you truly
love someone you can do everything without take importance to consequences.

This scene is in the last chapter; XVIII, on page 110.

2​. And also I really like the scene when Kaherdí give permission to Tristan to can leave his wife,
Isolde of the White Hands, and can go with his real love, Isolde. It is a really symolism of
friendship to change your sister's happiness for a friend can go and love his actually love, and
also is a good fact of brother to can make that his sister don't continue suffering.

This scene is in the chapter XVI, on page 88.

2. Dante 
Why is Dante such an important writer?
He is so important because he is considered the father of the Italian language, thanks to his
best-known work: The Divine Comedy, where he wrote about what he really thought and it was
for him and for the most of us the three periods of the Christian afterlife: purgatory, heaven and
hell. No one had described before in such detail and with many mythological hits as he did. It
was considered a revolution for all that was related with the church. In fact, it was considered
the greatest work of literature composed in Italian, and one of the first written in modern
literature and modern Italian.

3. Petrarch 
Petrarch's one passion was writing. His first pieces were poems that he composed after the
death of his mother. He would go on to write sonnets, letters, histories and more. Petrarch's
writing was greatly admired during his lifetime, and he was crowned Rome's poet laureate in
1341. The work Petrarch held in highest regard was his Latin composition Africa, an epic poem
about the Second Punic War. His vernacular poems achieved greater renown, however, and
would later be used to help create the modern Italian language. He was relevant because he is
one of the firsts writers of the Renaissance humanism and he is considered father of humanism
and considered by many father of Renaissance. So, what made him a relevant writer was his
writings and the repercussions of that.

4. Boccaccio 
4.1. Questions
1.​ What did he write about?
He wrote about real people and their real lives. Love,funny, horror or ghost
stories. All of them are the kinds of things that might happen to real people. He
wasn't at all interested in Christian issues.

Bibliography​: ​http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/literature/boccaccio.htm
2.​ Which is his most famous work and what is it about?
Boccaccio's most famous work is the ​Decameron​, which is a lot of short stories
strung together and ​which ten individuals fleeing from the plague into the
countryside tell stories. His most famous work is believed to have influenced
Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous book of the ​Canterbury Tales​.

Bibliography​: ​http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/literature/boccaccio.htm and

http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/famous-medieval-people/boccaccio.htm

3. Can you say two of Boccaccio’s quotes? Translate them into your language. Why did
you choose these quotations?

E​n​g​l​i​s​h​:​ “​Do as we say, and not as we do”​

C​a​t​a​l​a​n​:​ ​Fer-ho com diem i no com ho fem.

E​n​g​l​i​s​h​:​ “​People tend to believe the bad rather than the good”
C​a​t​a​l​a​n​:​ La gent sol creure més en lo dolent que en lo bo.

Boccaccio have many quotations, and there is others that I like more than this two. But I’ve
chosen this because I think that there are absolutely true.
When I read the first one, the first I thought was: hoy many times we said that we are going to
do something in an specific form and then we didn’t do as we thought before? I think it is
important to remember do the things how we say and then we are going to feel satisfied with our
own. And the second quotation is honest truth because we always think bad first than good. For
example if you see your boyfriend taking with another girl you may think that he is cheating on
you and he the truth is that that girl is helping your boyfriend to prepare you a surprise.

Bibliography​: ​http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/famous-medieval-people/boccaccio.htm

4.2. My answer to Ariadna’s questions

1. Which was Boccaccio’s innovation in literature?
Boccaccio’s innovation is that he was, together with Dante and Petrarch, one of the
Renaissance founders.
OK, but INCOMPLETE.

2. Which was Boccaccio’s most famous work? Tell me what it is about.

Boccaccio's most famous work is the ​Decameron​, which is a lot of short stories strung together
and ​which ten individuals fleeing from the plague into the countryside tell stories. His most
famous work is believed to have influenced Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous book of the
Canterbury Tales.​
3. Who was influenced by Boccaccio’s works?
William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer were influenced by Boccaccio’s works.

4.3. Ariadna’s questions

1.​ What did he write about?
Boccaccio wrote about real people and their real lives. Some of his stories are love stories,
some of them are horror stories or ghost stories, and some are funny, but all of them are the
kinds of things that might happen to real people. He wasn't at all interested in Christian issues.

2.​ Which is his most famous work and what is it about?

Boccaccio's most famous work is the Decameron, which is a lot of short stories strung together.
Decameron tells the story of ten individuals who fled the plague in Florence and traveled into
the countryside. There, the group exchanged various stories from their lives to help pass the
time. Decameron is said to be the primary influence for Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

3. Can you say two of Boccaccio’s quotes? Translate them into your language. Why did
you choose these quotations?
● “Do as we say, and not as we do”
- Fes com diem, i no com fem.
I have chosen this quote because I thought that it is one of the best quotes. I like it a lot.

● “People tend to believe the bad rather than the good”

- ​La gent tendeix a confiar que no pas en les coses bones.

I chose this quotes because I think that it’s true. Now a days, people tend to believe to bad
things and not for goods.

5. Timeline 

Timeline Unit 2

Tristan and Isolde ​is a legend of a medieval

1313-1375 romance of the tragic love-triangle: King
Mark, his wife Isolde and his nephew Tristan.
12th Century King Mark wants to marry Isolde, but she
 loves Tristan and he loves her, so they will
fight to be together. In fact, they have a
terrible end.

Dante Alighieri ​was an Italian poet. HIs

1265-1321 best-known work was ​The Divine Comedy,​
13th and 14th Centuries considered the greatest literary work
composed in Italian. He is seen as the father
of modern Italian.

The Divine Comedy ​is a poem written by

1304-1308 Dante among 1304 and 1308. Dante named
14th Century Commedy because it can’t be a tragedy
because have a happy end. Was Boccaccio
who added ‘divine’. It is about hell, purgatory
and paradaise.

Petrarch ​was an Italian poet in the

1304-1374 Renaissance and one of the earliest
14th Century humanists. He is best-known for his Italian
poetry. One of his best-known works is ​Il
Canzonieri​.

Giovanni Boccaccio​, born in 1913, ​was an

1313-1375 important author, poet and Renaissance
14th Century humanist. He is, with Petrarch and Dante,
one father’s literature. His best-known work is
the ​Decameron.​

The Decameron ​is a book which have

1351-1353 hundred of stories finished by Giovanni
14th Century Boccaccio between 1351 and 1353. The main
themes of this book are love, intelligence and
fortune.
 UNIT 3 
1. Humanism and Renaissance  
1.1. Humanism
● Generally applied to the predominant social philosophy.
● Embodied mystical and aesthetic temper of pre-scientific age.
● Humanist mentality:
Medievalists → see humanism as the terminal product of the Middle Ages.
Modern → apt to view humanism as the germinal period of modernism.
● Humanism began as a rather pious, timid, and conservative drift away from medieval
Christianity and ended in bold independence of medieval tradition.
● During the humanist era that the freedom of individual expression and opposition to
authority was first brought to the surface and became an integral part of the western
intellectual tradition.
● Humanism writers:
❏ Desiderius Erasmus
❏ Francesco Petrarch
❏ Francis Bacon.

1.2. Renaissance
● Was marked by: literature, languages, arts, architecture and philosophy.
● Was an anthropocentric movement.
● Since the 14th to the 17th century
● The movement starts in Italy.
● Renaissance artists: Petrarch, Leonardo Da Vinci, Miguel Ángel, Rafael and Botticelli.
● Are divide in three periods:
● - Early
● - High
● - Late

2. François Rabelais  
2.1. About him
He was a French Renaissance writer and humanist, doctor, monk and Greek scholar. He was
born in Chinon, France, between 1483 and 1494 and he died April 9, 1553 in Paris, France. He
is considered one of the greatest writers of literature world. His first book, ​Pantagruel​, was
published on 1532, it was the first book of his ​Gargantua series. We didn’t know who was the
author of ​Garganuta’​ s series since he wrote he third book, which he published under his own
name. Before that, he published his book as Alcofribas Nasier.

2.2. ​Gargantua and Pantagruel

It is a collection of five books written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. This books tell
the story of two giants: Gargantua and Pantagruel. It was written a funny, extravagant and ironic
vein.
The two first books are all about the two giants but the rest talk more about Pantagruel’s friends.
In the first book, Rabelais of the Abbey of Thélème, built by Gargantua and which gives a little
bit of fun to the monastic institutions.

3. Shakespeare 
Shakespeare was born in Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564.
He wrote his works between the 16th and the 17th Century.
His birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23rd because he died on that date.
He got married when he was only 18 to a girl called Anne Hathaway and they had three
children.
His theatre was associated with The Globe, which was burnt down in 1613.
Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 epic poems.
Sam Wanamaker was his visions to rebuild the Globe.
Shakespeare also invented about 3000 words.
He retired to Stratford-upon-Avon.
“... curst be he that moves my bones” is a phrase which appears on Shakespeare’s gravestone.
He died when he was 52 years old.
Shakespeare was always in love.

Juliet said: “O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo”

“To or be or not to be” comes from “Hamlet”.
The Globe is an Elizabethan Theatre.
Shakespeare was an actor as well as a poet and a playwright.
The film “Shakespeare in love” was not a true story.
There is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today.

A soliloquy is a passage in a drama in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings

alone on stage.
A pair of rhyming lines of verse that self-contains in grammatical structure and meaning is a
couplet.
“Twelve Night” starts with these words: “If music be the food of love, play on”. In this play we
can find a group of clowns: Feste, Maluolio, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
We can find a character called Claudius in “Hamlet”.
The play “The winter’s Tale” uses a statue to reveal a most dramatic secret.
Giuseppe Verdi produced his tragic masterpiece based on one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
In “Macbeth” witches play an important role.
“Julius Caesar” was Shakespeare’s first play written in Roman themes.
Henry Purcel was an English composer known for his incidental music to a version of
Shakeaspeare’s “A midsummer Night Dream”.
Richard III, an historical character created by Shakespeare, boosts that he can “set the
murtherous Machevil to school”.
The Chamberlain’s Men was a theatre company that had William Shakespeare as its leading
dramatist.
The Globe Theatre, during a performance of “Henry VIII”, was accidentally set alight by a
cannon, set off to Mark the king’s entrance onstage in 1613.
Edmun Kean was an English actor known for his portrayal of villains in Shakespearean plays.
Lilian Baylis was a Theatrical manager and the founder of the Old Vic as a centre of
Shakespearean productions.
England’s king Richard III has been portrayed by William Shakespeare and others as a
hunchbacked monster of unparalleled villainy.
The planet Uranus is named after one of the greatest of the Greco-Romans gods.
In Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” a game of chess is played.

4. Hamlet (To be or not to be: the experience) 

I think that I did better than I expected the monologue instead I was very nervous and shy,
and I jumped some words, but I am happy with my soliloquy. May be if I did without the
other classmates looking at me I did it better. In fact is a good experience to learn and
improve English.

5. Timeline 

1400 - 1650 Humanism is a term ​generally applied to the

predominant social philosophy. Embodied
mystical and aesthetic temper of pre-scientific
age. Humanism began as a rather pious,
timid, and conservative drift away from
medieval Christianity and ended in bold
independence of medieval tradition. .

14th - 17th Century Renaissance was a cultural movement. It

started in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and
later spreading to the rest of Europe. I was
marked by literature, languages, art.
architecture and philosophy. And it was
divided in three periods: Early, High and Late.
 1483 - April 9, 1553 Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer
and humanist, doctor, monk and Greek
scholar. He is considered one of the greatest
writers of literature world. His first was book,
Pantagruel, the first book of his ​Gargantua
series. We didn’t know who was the author of
Garganuta​’s series since he wrote he third
book, which he published under his own
name. Before that, he published his book as
Alcofribas Nasier.

16th Century Gargantua and Pantagruel is a collection of

five books written in the 16th century by
François Rabelais. This books tell the story of
two giants: Gargantua and Pantagruel. It was
written in a funny, extravagant and ironic
vein.
The two first books are all about the two
giants but the rest talk more about
Pantagruel’s friends.

April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1516
Shakespeare is one of literature’s influences.
He was an English poet, playwright and actor.
He is regarded as the greatest writer in
England and the world’s prominent writer. His
early plays were comedies and histories and
then he wrote tragedies and tragicomedies.
Some of his most famous works are ​Romeo
and Juliet,​ H
​ amlet​ and ​Macbeth​.

1594 or 1595 Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by

William Shakespeare. It was during
Shakespeare’s timeline one of the most
popular plays. It is about two lovers that can
be together because of their families battle.

1599 - 1602 Hamlet is a tragedy written by William

Shakespeare. The play dramatizes the
revenge Prince Hamlet on his uncle Claudius
for murdering king Hamlet. This plays is
Shakespeare’s longest and the most powerful
and influential tragedies in English literature.

1601 - 1602 Twelfth Night is a comedy written by William

Shakespeare. It is about the king of Illyria that
fall in love with Olivia but she doesn’t love
 him. Instead of that, the king insists to marry
her and send his servant, Cesario, who is
Viola disguise of a man, to say that the king
wants to marry but she fall in love with
Cesario and Viola fall in love with the king.

1598 - 1599 Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy play

by William Shakespeare. Is considered one of
Shakespeare’s best comedies. Like other of
this author works is a comedy that ends with
multiple marriages and no deaths.

January 15, 1622 - February, 1673
Molière was a French playwright and actor.
He founded, with his wife Madeleine, and his
brother and sister in law The Illustrious
Theater. He is considered to be one of the
greatest authors of comedy in Western
literature. One of his most important works is
L’​Etorudi​.

Septembre 9, 1668 The Miser ​is a five-act comedy in prose by

the French playwright Molière. ​The play was
first produced when Molière's company was
under the protection of ​Louis XIV​ himself.

21 November, 1694 - 30 May, 1778
Voltaire was a French writer, historian and
philosopher. He wrote in, almost, every
literary form. He is famous for his humor, his
attacks against Catholic Church and his
support for religion and expression freedom.
Two of his most important works are ​Letters
on the English a​ nd ​Candide or Optimism​.

1733 Letters on the English was a philosophical

letters of French people that offense British
citizen. That book talks about religion,
political, medicine, famous people, art and
philosophy.

28 August, 1749 - 22 March 1832
Goethe was a German writer and politician.
He wrote epic and lyric poems in a variety of
metres and styles: prose and verse dramas,
memoirs, etc. Some of his works are ​Faust
and ​The Sorrows of young Werther.​

The Sorrows of young Werther is an

1774 autobiographical book written by Goethe. It is
a collection of letters written by Werther and
send it to his friend Wilhelm.