Read novels, literary nonfiction, stories, plays, and poetry from the Renaissance era, observing the continuity from the Middle Ages as well as the departures.
- Identify and investigate allusions to classical literature in Renaissance texts.
- Explain how a concept such as symmetry or divine proportion is expressed both in literature and in art.
- Analyze Renaissance conceptions of beauty and their literary manifestations.
- Describe how Renaissance writers took interest in human life and the individual person.
- Analyze the playful, satirical, irreverent aspects of Renaissance literature—in particular, the writing of Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Shakespeare.
- Explain how literary forms and devices reflect the author’s philosophical, aesthetic, or religious views.
- Write an essay in which they (a) compare a literary work with a work of art; (b) compare a Renaissance work with a medieval work; or (c) relate a literary work to a philosophical work.
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