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THE ENGLISH RENASSAINCE - Coggle Diagram
THE ENGLISH RENASSAINCE
developed later than europe, in the 16th century
great literary experimentation and innovation with genres and forms
DRAMA: the most important form of art
Elizabethan playhouse
open air structure, rectangular stage, with no curtain, scenery and effects
Actors
organised theselves in companies
key figure
William Shakespeare
POETRY: golden age, flourishing of sonnets
imported from italy into england
types
Petrarchan and English
Themes
love, desire of a lady who cannot return the love
key figure
William Shakespeare
explored human passion
showed confidence in reason