Short note on English Renaissance
Question: Write a short note on “English Renaissance or Renaissance”
Short note on English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England. It is associated with the European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. Renaissance style and ideas were slow to penetrate or sharpen England and the Elizabethan era is usually regarded as the height of the English renaissance.
The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian Renaissance which was moving into mannerism by 1550. In contrast, the English Renaissance can only truly be said to begin in the 1520s and continued until perhaps the 1620s.
Click here: For all the notes of History of English Literature
William Shakespeare was the chief figure of the English Renaissance. The other major literary figures in the English Renaissance include Francis Bacon, Edmund Spender, John Donne Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, John Webster, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and Thomas Wyatt.
So the rich English literature is nothing but the result of the English Renaissance.
