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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The Virgin Queen hasSubject English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Civil Wars by Samuel Daniel literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: The Civil Wars
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Earl of Worcester literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Sir Francis Walsingham era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Lady Viola de Lesseps timePeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Nurse literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Nurse (Romeo and Juliet)
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Arthur Brooke literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Palace of Pleasure literaryMovement English Renaissance
Palace of Pleasure timePeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
William Painter era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
William Painter literaryMovement English Renaissance
De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae historicalContext English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Barbican, Plymouth historicalPeriodRepresented English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Francis Vere era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Lady Capulet literaryPeriod English Renaissance
William Shakespeare's play "Richard II" literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Richard II
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Comedy of Errors literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Kirby Hall era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Sir Robert Cotton era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Orlando in Orlando settingSpans English Renaissance
subject surface form: Orlando
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Trinculo literaryPeriod English Renaissance
Prospero literaryPeriod English Renaissance
song “Come unto these yellow sands” literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Come unto these yellow sands
song “Where the bee sucks, there suck I” literaryPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright historicalContext English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament historicalPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Edmund Grindal era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Treaty of Nonsuch (contextual, involving English support to Dutch rebels) historicalPeriod English Renaissance
subject surface form: Treaty of Nonsuch
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Richard Field (printer) associatedWith English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan literature
Richard Field (printer) era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Richard Field (Jesuit) era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Orlando timePeriodDepicted English Renaissance
subject surface form: Orlando (1992 film)
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Every Man in His Humour setInPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Timber, or Discoveries literaryPeriod English Renaissance
On My First Son literaryPeriod English Renaissance
On My First Son literaryMovement English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Jacobean literature
sailing ship Desire era English Renaissance
subject surface form: Desire (sailing ship)
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
A Column of Fire setInTimePeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Gravedigger scene fromPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Polixenes literaryPeriod English Renaissance
John Heminges era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Henry Condell era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
James Lancaster historicalEra English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
All’s Well That Ends Well literaryPeriod English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan-Jacobean era
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick era English Renaissance
this entity surface form: Elizabethan era
Henry VI, Part 1 literaryPeriod English Renaissance