English Renaissance
Elizabethan cultural bloom
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England spanning roughly 1500–1660, marked by renewed interest in classical learning, humanism, and the arts.
The period produced Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe in literature, saw the flourishing of Elizabethan drama, and brought Italian Renaissance ideas to English architecture, music, and visual arts.
The term often overlaps with the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
- rose windowCircular tracery-filled window
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
tragedy · Marlowe · humanism · Neoplatonism · Elizabeth I · King James · divine right · patronage · Bacon · printing press · masque · cartography · Sidney · Reformation · portraiture · stage · blank verse · Jonson
- poetry termspoetry, rhyme, verse, rhythm, meter
- British StudiesBritish history, British literature, English literature, British drama, British folklore
- Elizabethan eraShakespeare, Tudor era, Elizabethan, sonnet, sonnets
- Renaissances
- Renaissance poetrysonnet, Spenser, sonnets, Sidney, Marlowe
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
English RenaissanceDark Ages
Post-Roman European decline
Industrial Revolution · Victorian era · English Reformation · Restoration · Medieval period
English Renaissanceanti-humanism
Rejection of human-centered worldviews
obscurantism · philistinism · superstition · Puritanism · iconoclasm