English Renaissance

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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, roughly spanning the late 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by a flowering of literature, drama, and humanist thought exemplified by figures like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic movement
cultural movement
historical period
associatedWith Elizabethan era
Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period

Stuart period
Tudor period
linked to: Tudor dynasty
country England
culturalContext Protestant Reformation
linked to: Reformation

expansion of printing
growth of London theatre
rise of humanism
endTime early 17th century
hasCenter Cambridge
linked to: Cambridge, England

London
linked to: London, England

Oxford
hasNotableFigure Aemilia Lanyer
Beaumont and Fletcher
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
Elizabeth I of England
Francis Bacon
George Chapman
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
James I of England
linked to: James VI and I

John Donne
John Fletcher
John Lyly
John Webster
Mary Sidney
Philip Sidney
linked to: Sir Philip Sidney

Robert Greene
Thomas Dekker
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Middleton
Thomas More
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Wyatt
William Shakespeare
hasNotableGenre comedy
epic poetry
history play
masque
pastoral poetry
sonnet
tragedy
hasNotableWork Astrophil and Stella
Doctor Faustus
Hamlet
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
Tamburlaine
The Duchess of Malfi
The Faerie Queene
The Jew of Malta
The Spanish Tragedy
Utopia
Volpone
influenced English drama
English literature
English philosophy
English poetry
subsequent Western literature
influencedBy Italian Renaissance
linked to: Renaissance

classical antiquity
humanist thought
language Early Modern English
mainFocus drama
humanism
literature
poetry
partOf European Renaissance
linked to: Renaissance
startTime late 15th century

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Renaissance hasSubPeriod English Renaissance
Iago (Shakespeare character) literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject linked to: Iago
Sir Walter Mildmay era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
William Perkins era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Early Modern English developedDuring Renaissance in England
linked to: English Renaissance
Early Modern English developedDuring Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
English Renaissance drama partOf English Renaissance
William Shakespeare movement English Renaissance
High Commission timePeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Tudor dynasty era Renaissance in England
linked to: English Renaissance
English Armada (1589) historicalPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Pelican associatedWith Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Golden Hind era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Elizabeth Sydenham timePeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Elizabethan House Museum significantPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Battle of Gravelines associatedWith Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Blackadder settingPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Shakespearean tragedies literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Roderigo literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject linked to: Roderigo (character)
Apethorpe Hall hasHistoricalPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Henry IV, Part 1 literaryPeriod English Renaissance
The Merry Wives of Windsor timeOfSetting Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
The Merry Wives of Windsor literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Henry IV, Part 2 literaryPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Bardolph literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Elizabeth: The Golden Age setInTimePeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Viola de Lesseps setInWork Elizabethan England
linked to: English Renaissance
Romeo and Juliet literaryPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Miles Hendon timePeriod Tudor England
linked to: English Renaissance
Ariel literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Elizabeth I (miniseries) depicts Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Theobalds House era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
King Lear literaryPeriod English Renaissance
A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men historicalContext Elizabethan England
linked to: English Renaissance
Ben Jonson movement English Renaissance
Spenserian stanza associatedWithLiteraryPeriod English Renaissance
Walter Raleigh associatedWith English Renaissance
Edmund Spenser movement English Renaissance
Edmund Spenser literaryPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Inns of Court masques period Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
The Reports era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Sir Philip Sidney movement English Renaissance
Works of William Shakespeare period Elizabethan era
subject linked to: works of William Shakespeare
linked to: English Renaissance
Memorial to Sir Walter Raleigh heritage Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
John Colet era English Renaissance
The Globe Theatre culturalPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
Elizabethan religious settlement historicalPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
The Rose Theatre era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance