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
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

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Hamlet literaryPeriod English Renaissance
A Midsummer Night's Dream literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Merchant of Venice literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Sonnets literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Sonnets literaryMovement English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Jacobean literature
Titus Andronicus literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
As You Like It literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Inigo Jones movement English Renaissance
Twelfth Night literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Antony and Cleopatra literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Mary Newman associatedWith English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
John Davis era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Blackfriars Theatre era English Renaissance
The Taming of the Shrew literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Love's Labour's Lost literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Macbeth literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Drake–Norris Expedition era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Christopher Marlowe movement English Renaissance
Christopher Marlowe movement English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan literature
Christopher Marlowe era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Thomas Kyd movement English Renaissance
Thomas Kyd era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Puck literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Essex-Raleigh Expedition to the Azores historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Battle of Kinsale (1601) historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
John Fletcher literaryMovement English Renaissance
Sir Richard Grenville historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Of Great Place literaryMovement English Renaissance
Mary Sidney movement English Renaissance
Mary Sidney era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Mary Sidney era English Renaissance
Robert Greene movement English Renaissance
George Chapman movement English Renaissance
George Chapman movement English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan literature
The Faerie Queene literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Astrophil and Stella literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Volpone literaryPeriod English Renaissance
The Jew of Malta period English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Tamburlaine literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Spanish Tragedy literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Sir Edward Alleyn (founder, associated) era English Renaissance
subject surface form: Sir Edward Alleyn
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Thomas Wyatt movement English Renaissance
Judith Quiney era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey movement English Renaissance
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Thomas Nashe activeInPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Lord Thomas Howard era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Boyhood of Raleigh depicts time period English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Ghost timeOfCompositionContext English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Viscount St Alban associatedWith English Renaissance