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Elizabethan Literature

Works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603)

Shakespeare's plays.

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William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

(1564 -1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London. Famous play: Tamburlaine.

(1564 - 1616) )William Shakespeare was a genius of English literature, who wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and many poems that have influenced generations of writers and readers.

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During Elizabethan age, the poetry such as the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse flourished; it was a golden age of drama, especially for the plays of Shakespeare, and inspired a wide variety of splendid prose from historical chronicles, versions of the Holy Scriptures, pamphlets, and literary criticism to the first English novels.

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Elizabethan Literature

It's probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature, when writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare flourished.The epithet Elizabethan is merely a chronological reference and does not describe any special characteristic of the writing.

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