Elizabethan literature information

Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English...

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict...

Rudolf Weckherlin Allegory in Renaissance literature British literature#The Renaissance Elizabethan literature English Renaissance theatre Renaissance in...

the film are common in Shakespearean comedies and other plays of the Elizabethan era: the monarch moving unrecognized among the common people (cf. Henry...

form around 1400 and flourished in the early Elizabethan era in England. By the time of Elizabethan literature, a vigorous literary culture in both drama...

conflicts with the English Parliament. Under James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John...

Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660-1688), which...

English Renaissance theatre, also known as Renaissance English theatre and Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1558 and 1642. This...

Saintsbury, History of Elizabethan Literature, MacMillan, London, 1887, pp.60-64 The Cambridge History of English Literature: General index, Volume 15...

philologist; an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and English plays, poems, and Elizabethan literature; and author of approximately 60 books on those subjects, including...

into Mannerism by the 1530s. In literature the later part of the 16th century saw the flowering of Elizabethan literature, with poetry heavily influenced...

for Adonis became the inspiration for many literary portrayals in Elizabethan literature of both male and female courtship. William Shakespeare's erotic...

Orlando Innamorato, The Custom of the Castle from Malory to Macbeth, Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare...

literary editor. He is chiefly remembered for reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a work which he undertook because of his interest in Puritan theology...

of literature." Shakespeare is estimated to have used over 3,000 puns in his plays. Even though many of the puns were bawdy, Elizabethan literature considered...

popular as printed literature was disseminated more widely in households. John Donne was another important figure in Elizabethan poetry (see Jacobean...

Hampstead Heath, where he collected a valuable library, rich in Elizabethan literature. He also accumulated a large collection of Hogarth prints, and his...

prefers using real persons to represent most sins and virtues. In Elizabethan literature many of the characters in Edmund Spenser's enormous epic The Faerie...

the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era. The term "Jacobean" is often used...

Norton Anthology of English Literature: Sixteenth/Early Seventeenth Century, Volume B, 2012, p. 647 "Elizabethan literature | Definition, Characteristics...

series, History of Elizabethan Literature (1887), History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), A Short History of English Literature (1898, 3rd ed. 1903...

philosophy rather than on mathematics. He also began an intense study of Elizabethan literature, thinking there might be evidence that Francis Bacon wrote the plays...

Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia, earlier the Lands of the Bohemian Crown), or...

"Renaissance Drama and the Law" (1996) 25 Renaissance Drama 158; Ross, Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance, 2003, p 26. As to the meaning...

mean "autumn" is obsolete. Although found often from Elizabethan literature to Victorian literature, the seasonal use of fall remains easily understandable...