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1 religious conflict in elizabethan poetry contents introduction………………………………………………………………..2 chapter i. elizabethan poetry and prose……………………………………….4 1.1.elizabethan lyric…………………………………………………………………6 2.1.the sonnet sequence…………………………………………………………..…7 chapter ii. elizabethan and early stuart drama………………………………..15 2.1. the early histories…………………………………………………………..…19 2.2.writings of the royalists………………………………………………….24 conclusion……………………………………………………………………..28 list of literature………………………………………………………………30 https://www.britannica.com/art/sonnet https://www.britannica.com/topic/elizabethan-age 2 introduction english poetry and prose burst into sudden glory in the late 1570s. a decisive shift of taste toward a fluent artistry self-consciously displaying its own grace and sophistication was announced in the works of spenser and sidney. it was accompanied by an upsurge in literary production that came to fruition in the 1590s and 1600s, two decades of astonishing productivity by writers of every persuasion and calibre. the groundwork was laid in the 30 years from 1550, a period of slowly increasing confidence in the literary competence of the language and tremendous advances in education, which for the first time produced a substantial english readership, keen for literature …
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the work of the humanists thomas wilson, roger ascham, and sir john cheke, whose treatises on rhetoric, education, and even archery argued in favour of an unaffected vernacular prose and a judicious attitude toward linguistic borrowings. their stylistic ideals are attractively embodied in ascham’s educational tract the schoolmaster (1570), and their tonic effect on that particularly elizabethan art, translation, can be felt in the earliest important examples, sir thomas hoby’s castiglione (1561) and sir thomas https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calibre https://www.britannica.com/art/literature https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cultivated https://www.britannica.com/topic/stationers-company https://www.britannica.com/topic/stationers-company https://www.britannica.com/art/lyric https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eloquent https://www.britannica.com/biography/roger-ascham https://www.britannica.com/biography/john-cheke https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treatises https://www.britannica.com/topic/rhetoric https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vernacular https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-schoolmaster https://www.britannica.com/biography/thomas-hoby https://www.britannica.com/biography/thomas-north 3 north’s plutarch (1579). a further stimulus was the religious upheaval that took place in the middle of the century. the desire of reformers to address as comprehensive an audience as possible—the bishop and the boy who follows the plough, as william tyndale put it—produced the first true classics of english prose: the reformed anglican book of common prayer …
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e latter’s combination of grandeur and plainness is justly celebrated, even if it represents an idiom never spoken in heaven or on earth. nationalism inspired by the reformation motivated the historical chronicles of the capable and stylish edward hall (1548), who bequeathed to shakespeare the tendentious tudor interpretation of the 15th century, and of raphael holinshed (1577). in verse, tottel’s much reprinted miscellany generated a series of imitations and, by popularizing the lyrics of sir thomas wyatt and the earl of surrey, carried into the 1570s the tastes of the early tudor court. the newer poets collected by tottel and other anthologists include nicholas grimald, richard edwardes, george turberville, barnabe googe, george gascoigne, sir john harington, and many others, of whom gascoigne is the most prominent. the modern preference for the ornamental manner of the next generation has eclipsed these poets, who continued the tradition of plain, weighty verse, addressing …
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nary/tendentious https://www.britannica.com/biography/raphael-holinshed https://www.britannica.com/biography/raphael-holinshed https://www.britannica.com/biography/thomas-wyatt https://www.britannica.com/biography/nicholas-grimald https://www.britannica.com/biography/george-turberville https://www.britannica.com/biography/george-gascoigne https://www.britannica.com/biography/george-gascoigne https://www.britannica.com/biography/john-harington https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethical https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/didactic https://www.britannica.com/art/satire 4 and ben jonson, to outlive the cult of elegance. the period’s major project was a mirror for magistrates (1559; enlarged editions 1563, 1578, 1587), a collection of verse laments, by several hands, purporting to be spoken by participants in the wars of the roses and preaching the tudor doctrine of obedience. the quality is uneven, but thomas sackville’s “induction” and thomas churchyard’s “legend of shore’s wife” are distinguished, and the intermingling of history, tragedy, and political morality was to be influential on the drama. sidney and spenser chapter i. elizabethan poetry and prose with the work of sir philip sidney and edmund spenser, tottel’s contributors suddenly began to look old-fashioned. sidney epitomized the new renaissance “universal man”: a courtier, diplomat, soldier, and poet whose defence of poesie includes the first considered account of the state of english …
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icate experimental verses. the revised version (written c. 1580–84, published 1590; the last three books of the first version were added in 1593), vastly expanded but abandoned in mid-sentence, added sprawling plots of heroism in love and war, philosophical and political discourses, and set pieces of aristocratic etiquette. sidney was a dazzling and assured innovator whose pioneering of new forms and stylistic melody was seminal for his generation. https://www.britannica.com/biography/ben-jonson-english-writer https://www.britannica.com/event/wars-of-the-roses https://www.britannica.com/biography/thomas-sackville-1st-earl-of-dorset https://www.britannica.com/biography/thomas-churchyard https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature https://www.britannica.com/topic/morality https://www.britannica.com/art/dramatic-literature https://www.britannica.com/biography/philip-sidney https://www.britannica.com/biography/philip-sidney https://www.britannica.com/biography/edmund-spenser https://www.britannica.com/event/renaissance https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-defence-of-poesie https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treatise https://www.britannica.com/art/sonnet https://www.britannica.com/topic/arcadia-by-sidney https://www.britannica.com/art/romance-literature-and-performance https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seminal 5 his public fame was as an aristocratic champion of an aggressively protestant foreign policy, but elizabeth had no time for idealistic warmongering, and the unresolved conflicts in his poetry—desire against restraint, heroism against patience, rebellion against submission—mirror his own discomfort with his situation as an unsuccessful courtier. protestantism also loomed large in spenser’s life. he enjoyed the patronage of the earl of leicester, who …

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1 religious conflict in elizabethan poetry contents introduction………………………………………………………………..2 chapter i. elizabethan poetry and prose……………………………………….4 1.1.elizabethan lyric…………………………………………………………………6 2.1.the sonnet sequence…………………………………………………………..…7 chapter ii. elizabethan and early stuart drama………………………………..15 2.1. the early histories…………………………………………………………..…19 2.2.writings of the royalists………………………………………………….24 conclusion……………………………………………………………………..28 list of literature………………………………………………………………30 https://www.britannica.com/art/sonnet https://www.britannica.com/topic/elizabethan-age 2 introduction english poetry and prose burst into sudden glory in the late 1570s. a decisive shift of taste toward a fluent artistry self-consciously displaying its own grace and sophistication was announced in t...

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