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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Viscount St Alban historicalPeriod English Renaissance
Barbican district historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Troilus and Cressida literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Henry VI, Part 3 belongsToLiteraryPeriod English Renaissance
Sir John in Love settingPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Thomas Tallis movement English Renaissance
John Lyly movement English Renaissance
John Lyly movement English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan literature
John Greenwood era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Laurence Chaderton era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Thomas Bodley era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
John Norris timePeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Jacobethan periodRevived English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Tudor court era English Renaissance
Much Ado About Nothing literaryPeriod English Renaissance
The Two Gentlemen of Verona literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Kenilworth Castle notablePeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (film score) depicts English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
1 Henry IV literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Othello (play) literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Othello
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Sir Edwin Sandys era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Ophelia literaryPeriod English Renaissance
William Cornysh movement English Renaissance
Hamlet (1996 film) score periodSetting English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex eraDepicted English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
St Crispin's Day speech workPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Fluellen literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Don Pedro authorEra English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Don John literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Hero literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Raphael Holinshed era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Children of the Chapel Royal historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Orlando: A Biography settingPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Doctor Caius timePeriodOfFictionalUniverse English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Pistol literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Nym literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Slender timePeriodOfWork English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Shallow literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera by Otto Nicolai) periodOfSetting English Renaissance
subject surface form: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Boar’s Head Tavern literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Justice Shallow literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Doll Tearsheet literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
House of Montague literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Lord Montague literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Lady Montague literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Poins literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Henriad literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Elizabeth R setInPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human timePeriodDiscussed English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era