LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Sir Thomas More
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Philip Sidney
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John Milton
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Detailed explanation-1: -Raleigh was confined to the Tower a second time in 1603 after he was accused of plotting against King James I. Stripped of most of his wealth, he would spend nearly 13 years detained in a part of the castle known as the Bloody Tower.
Detailed explanation-2: -When James I showed mercy and reduced his sentence in 1603, Raleigh was sent to the Tower for what he expected would be life imprisonment. He served the next 13 years here.
Detailed explanation-3: -Trial and imprisonment Raleigh was arrested on 19 July 1603 at what is now the Old Exeter Inn in Ashburton, charged with treason for his involvement in the Main Plot against Elizabeth’s successor, James I, and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Detailed explanation-4: -Best Known For: Sir Walter Raleigh was an English adventurer and writer who established a colony near Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death for treason.
Detailed explanation-5: -After Elizabeth died in 1603, Raleigh was implicated as a foe of King James I and imprisoned with a death sentence. The death sentence was later commuted, and in 1616 Raleigh was freed to lead an expedition to the New World, this time to establish a gold mine in the Orinoco River region of South America.