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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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales → era → Elizabethan era ⓘ
linked to: English Renaissance
William Perkins → era → Elizabethan era ⓘ
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Elizabeth I of England → era → Elizabethan era ⓘ
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linked to: English Renaissance
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linked to: English Renaissance
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linked to: English Renaissance
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Elizabethan religious settlement → historicalPeriod → Elizabethan era ⓘ
linked to: English Renaissance