Elizabethan literature
Tudor-age English writing
Elizabethan literature is English writing produced during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), a period of remarkable creative flourishing.
The era produced Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, along with the development of English drama and the sonnet form.
The term often extends loosely to include early Jacobean works: an Elizabethan revenge tragedy, the golden age of Elizabethan literature.
- star-crossed loversCouple doomed by destiny
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- masqueCourtly theatrical entertainment
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