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Seminar №2-3 
RENAISSANCE. DRAMA. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 
COMEDIES AND SONNETS.
Thomas More “Utopia”, Renaissance. Drama. Christopher 
Marlowe “ Doctor Faust” 
 
Plan 
 
1. The influence of Renaissance period in English literature 
2. Sir Thomas More 
3. Sir Francis Bacon 
3. Sir Philip Sydney 
4. Christopher Marlowe 
5. Ben Johnson 
Thomas More “Utopia” 
 
When 
Utopia 
opens, the character 
Thomas More
 is in the Netherlands, serving as an 
ambassador sent by King Henry VIII of England to hold negotiations concerning the English 
wool trade. More then travels to Antwerp, where he takes up residence and befriends an honest, 
learned citizen of that city named 
Peter Giles
. 
More is returning home from church one day when he runs into Giles, who is speaking with an 
old man called 
Raphael Hythloday
. More, Giles, and Hythloday walk together to More’s house, 
and in his garden the three men talk at length. Hythloday, we learn, sailed the world alongside 
the great historical explorer Amerigo Vespucci, and he even traveled to the New World by way 
of Asia. Moreover, it was in the New World that he came into contact with the Utopians, 
an 
island
 people who live in what Hythloday thinks to be the most perfectly organized 
commonwealth in the world. 
 
Tasks 
I. Show the lines which describe the strength and braveness of Beowulf. And compare these 
descriptions with modern fictional characters’ features. 
II. What are the symbolic features of Beowulf’s death in the epic?
III. I. Find these metaphors in the extracts of the poem given above and explain them. 
1) Lighthearted laughter 
2) Twelve-winters’ time 
3) Soul-crushing sorrow 
4) Foamy-necked floater 
5) Twist-stemmed vessel 
6) Hero-in-battle 
7) Hand-grapple 
8) Hand-grip 
9) Great-stretching hall-roof 
10) Folk-princes 
11) Long-stretching journeys 
12) Devil-shaped woman 
13) Crime-worker 
14) Tardy-at-battle 
15) Infamous life