The renaissance period (Part one)
The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world, generally speaking, it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. Today, we will discuss the characters of this specific period and further talk about how those renaissance literature masters contribute to the development of letters at that time.
Firstly, let us look at that the accurate definition of renaissance. The Renaissance, as the name suggested, means rebirth or revival, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. It is no exaggeration to say that, renaissance is a previous stone in the literature museum, alternatively shining the brilliant 20mw green laser and 30mw green laser to the visitors, displaying that how those great master insist their thought on the writing and never try to Wholesale their viewpoint to the readers, in a sense, their passionate and rigorous artistic style really worth the contemporary writer studying for.
The humanist insist the principle of “people first” , that is why Humanism is the essence of Renaissance. One of the major results of Reformation was the fact that the Bible in English was placed in every church and services were held in English instead of Latin so that more people could understand. Religion always the most important aspect of social reformation, it is a common notion that the people more likely to be guide by the church principle but some enforceable police regulation, but the Renaissance religious reformation was actually reflection of the class struggle waged by the new rising bourgeoisie against the feudal class and its ideology. Petrarch was regarded as the fountainhead of literature by English writers.
In the early stage of the Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Elizabethan drama is the mainstream of the English Renaissance; the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Okay, here I will stop talking about the characters of Renaissance but paying more attention on the hot figures at that time , let us list the most prominent Renaissance writers , they are Edmund Spenser, Christopher mallow, William Shakespeare , Franks Bacon, John Donne and John Milton. What are their masterpieces? What is their writing style? what are their attitude toward life? Please follow my outlines and just read up this article to find out the answer.
William Shakespeare:
It is beyond doubt that William Shakespeare is the most blazing diamond which just underneath a 300mw laser pointer, refreshing the readers all around the world. He is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets at the world have ever known. With his 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems, he has established his giant position in world literature. From about 1591 to around 1611, Shakespeare was in the prime of his dramatic career. In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare wrote two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucerne.
Shakespeare’s comedies includes: a Midsummer Night’s Dream, The merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As you like it, Twelfth Night, The Merry wives of Window.
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