English Renaissance

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artistic movement cultural movement historical period

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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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Elizabethan era	20
Elizabethan England	2
Renaissance in England	2
Tudor England	1

Statements (74)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ
associatedWith	Elizabethan era ⓘ Stuart period ⓘ surface form: Jacobean era Stuart period ⓘ Tudor dynasty ⓘ surface form: Tudor period
country	England ⓘ
culturalContext	Reformation ⓘ surface form: Protestant Reformation expansion of printing ⓘ growth of London theatre ⓘ rise of humanism ⓘ
endTime	early 17th century ⓘ
hasCenter	Cambridge, England ⓘ surface form: Cambridge London, England ⓘ surface form: London 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 VI and I ⓘ surface form: James I of England John Donne ⓘ John Fletcher ⓘ John Lyly ⓘ John Webster ⓘ Mary Sidney ⓘ Sir Philip Sidney ⓘ surface form: 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	Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Italian Renaissance classical antiquity ⓘ humanist thought ⓘ
language	Early Modern English ⓘ
mainFocus	drama ⓘ humanism ⓘ literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ
partOf	Renaissance ⓘ surface form: European Renaissance
startTime	late 15th century ⓘ

Referenced by (39)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Gravelines → associatedWith → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Pelican → associatedWith → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Walter Raleigh → associatedWith → English Renaissance ⓘ

Spenserian stanza → associatedWithLiteraryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Elizabeth I (miniseries) → depicts → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Early Modern English → developedDuring → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Renaissance in England

Early Modern English → developedDuring → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Golden Hind → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Sir Walter Mildmay → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Theobalds House → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Tudor dynasty → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Renaissance in England

William Perkins → era → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire → hasHistoricalPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Apethorpe Hall

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Renaissance → hasSubPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men → historicalContext → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan England

English Armada (1589) → historicalPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Ariel → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Bardolph → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Henry IV, Part 1 → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Henry IV, Part 2 → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Iago → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Iago (Shakespeare character)

King Lear → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Roderigo (character) → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Roderigo

Romeo and Juliet → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Shakespearean tragedies → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

The Merry Wives of Windsor → literaryPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

Ben Jonson → movement → English Renaissance ⓘ

William Shakespeare → movement → English Renaissance ⓘ

English Renaissance drama → partOf → English Renaissance ⓘ

Elizabeth: The Golden Age → setInTimePeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Viola de Lesseps → setInWork → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan England

Blackadder → settingPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Elizabethan House Museum → significantPeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

The Merry Wives of Windsor → timeOfSetting → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Elizabeth Sydenham → timePeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

High Commission → timePeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elizabethan era

Miles Hendon → timePeriod → English Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tudor England