Self-study
P1
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, J. W. Binns asserts that the drama of Shakespeare, the verse of Marlowe, and the prose of Sidney—all of whom wrote in English—do not alone represent the high culture of Renaissance (roughly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century) England. ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ██ ████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ ████████████ ██ ███ ████████████ ███
Binns' perspective ·
Latin was culturally important during English Renaissance
Problem ·
Specialists in Renaissance Latin neglect culturally important works
Theology, science, law, medicine
P2
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Expand problem ·
English intellectual historians neglect important influence of Latin
They only cover works written in English, and ignore influences of Latin on English intellectuals
Example of Latin influence ·
Late Renaissance humanism
English writers were influenced by humanist thinkers, who drew on ancient Latin texts
P3
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Summarize problem ·
Gap between specialists in Latin and specialists in English intellectual history
Implication of problem ·
Distorted understanding of Renaissance English history
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
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The author never compares these authors’ nonfiction works to their fiction works.
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The author doesn’t suggest that anyone believes these authors have revolutionized Western thought. The author mentions that
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works have been ███████ ██ ██ ██████████ ███ ████████ █████
The author doesn’t suggest these authors’ works have been treated as a coherent whole. The author mentions that scholars
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This is the best answer. The author mentions these three authors as examples of authors whose works are thought to represent the high culture of Renaissance England. This sets up the next point in the paragraph, which is that they are not the only authors whose works are part of the high culture of Renaissance England.
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The author never suggests that these three authors wrote Latin works. Although English intellectuals generally did write in Latin, we don’t know, from the passage, that Shakespeare wrote in Latin.