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The period known as the English Renaissance, approximately 1500–1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle (c. 1566), belong to the 16th century.
16th-century Renaissance humanism ... the character of the drama changed towards the end of the period. Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified expression as far as ...
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Late 16th and early 17th century 'Roman history' plays—English plays based on episodes in Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, and Plutarch—were, to varying degrees, successful on stage from the late 1580s to the 1630s. Their appeal lay partly in their exotic spectacle, partly in their unfamiliar plots, partly in the way they could explore ...
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.
This category contains plays dating to the English Renaissance (16th century-17th century). Note that some slightly earlier plays are included here. ...
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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 literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...