Quick Overview of Elizabethan Era in English Literature | Elizabethan Age Writers and Their Works

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The Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)

This age is named after Queen Elizabeth I who reigned over England from 1558 to 1603. This is the most glorious age of English literature.

Literary Features of the Period :
The renaissance brought ancient Greek and Roman wisdom to England.

The religious Reformation taught religious tolerance and secularism.

The social life of England was marked by a strong national spirit, humanism, religious broadmindedness, scientific curiosity, social content, intellectual progress and unlimited enthusiasm.

All these aspects of the social life are reflected in the writings of this period.

Major writers and Their Major Works:

Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia (or kingdom of Nowhere) The book was originally written in Latin in 1516.

Edmund Spenser (1552-99): the poet of the poets. He is called the poet of the poets because after his death many later English poets followed his art of poetry. The Faerie Queen's (1590)The Shepherd's Calendar (1579) 

Nicholas Udall: Ralph Roister Doister (1553), the first English comedy.

Norton and Sackville (1536-1608): Gorboduc (1562), the first English tragedy.

Thomas Kyd (1557-1595), a university wit: The Spanish Tragedy (1585).


Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) An Apologize for Poetrie (1595), a critical treatise. Arcadia (1590), book that bears the embryo of English nobel.

University wits are a group of young dramatists who wrote and performed in London towards the end of the 16th century. They are called university wits because they were the witty students of Cambridge or Oxford. Marlowe, Kyd, Nashe, Greene, Lyly and Peele were the members of this group. They upheld the classical ideals, and ridiculed the crudeness of the new English plays.

Christophe Marlowe(1564-93), a university wit: Tamburlaine the Great  (1587)Dr.Faustus (1592)The Jew of Malta (1589); Edward II (1591).

William Shakespeare(1564-1616): He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.Of the total 37 plays he wrote the following 25 before the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the natural philosopher: Essays (1597) 


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