Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

English Renaissance

Index English Renaissance

The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. [1]

122 relations: A. L. Rowse, Aesthetics of music, Antiphon, Art movement, Artists of the Tudor court, Baconian method, Baroque, Battle of Bosworth Field, Ben Jonson, Book of Common Prayer, Burghley House, C. S. Lewis, Christopher Marlowe, Cultural history, Cultural movement, Dante Alighieri, Donatello, Early modern Britain, Early modern Europe, Early music of the British Isles, Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth I of England, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan literature, English language, English literature, English Madrigal School, English Reformation, English Renaissance theatre, Francis Bacon, Francis Beaumont, Francis Hubert, Funerary art, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Chapman, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Hampton Court Palace, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, House of Tudor, Iconoclasm, Illuminated manuscript, Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer, Isaac Oliver, Italian language, Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacobean architecture, ..., Jacobean era, James Shirley, John Donne, John Dowland, John Fletcher (playwright), John Ford (dramatist), John Gower, John Lydgate, John Webster, King James Version, Landscape painting, Langley Chapel, Latin, Layer Marney Tower, Le Morte d'Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci, Literature, Little Moreton Hall, Lorna Hutson, Lucas Horenbout, Madrigal, Mannerism, Medieval literature, Michelangelo, Middle Ages, Middle English, Music, Nicholas Hilliard, Nicholas Yonge, Nonsuch Palace, Occasional poetry, On Monsieur's Departure, Philip Massinger, Philip Sidney, Piers Plowman, Portrait miniature, Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England, Printing press, Renaissance, Renaissance humanism, Roger Ascham, Roman School, Scientific method, Sonnet, Sutton Place, Surrey, The Faerie Queene, Thomas Dekker (writer), Thomas Hoccleve, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Malory, Thomas Middleton, Thomas More, Thomas Morley, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Wyatt (poet), Timber framing, Tudor period, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Venetian School (music), Vernacular, Visual arts, Walter Raleigh, Wars of the Roses, Western canon, William Byrd, William Langland, William Rowley, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, Wollaton Hall. Expand index (72 more) »

A. L. Rowse

Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British author and historian from Cornwall.

New!!: English Renaissance and A. L. Rowse · See more »

Aesthetics of music

In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization.

New!!: English Renaissance and Aesthetics of music · See more »

Antiphon

An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain.

New!!: English Renaissance and Antiphon · See more »

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

New!!: English Renaissance and Art movement · See more »

Artists of the Tudor court

The artists of the Tudor court are the painters and limners engaged by the monarchs of England's Tudor dynasty and their courtiers between 1485 and 1603, from the reign of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Typically managing a group of assistants and apprentices in a workshop or studio, many of these artists produced works across several disciplines, including portrait miniatures, large-scale panel portraits on wood, illuminated manuscripts, heraldric emblems, and elaborate decorative schemes for masques, tournaments, and other events.

New!!: English Renaissance and Artists of the Tudor court · See more »

Baconian method

The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon.

New!!: English Renaissance and Baconian method · See more »

Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

New!!: English Renaissance and Baroque · See more »

Battle of Bosworth Field

The Battle of Bosworth Field (or Battle of Bosworth) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England in the latter half of the 15th century.

New!!: English Renaissance and Battle of Bosworth Field · See more »

Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

New!!: English Renaissance and Ben Jonson · See more »

Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, Anglican realignment and other Anglican Christian churches.

New!!: English Renaissance and Book of Common Prayer · See more »

Burghley House

Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century country house in the civil parishes of St Martin's Without and Barnack in the Peterborough unitary authority of the English county of Cambridgeshire, but adjoining Stamford in Lincolnshire.

New!!: English Renaissance and Burghley House · See more »

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

New!!: English Renaissance and C. S. Lewis · See more »

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

New!!: English Renaissance and Christopher Marlowe · See more »

Cultural history

Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.

New!!: English Renaissance and Cultural history · See more »

Cultural movement

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work.

New!!: English Renaissance and Cultural movement · See more »

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

New!!: English Renaissance and Dante Alighieri · See more »

Donatello

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence.

New!!: English Renaissance and Donatello · See more »

Early modern Britain

Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

New!!: English Renaissance and Early modern Britain · See more »

Early modern Europe

Early modern Europe is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century.

New!!: English Renaissance and Early modern Europe · See more »

Early music of the British Isles

Early music of the British Isles, from the earliest recorded times until the beginnings of the Baroque in the 17th century, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite.

New!!: English Renaissance and Early music of the British Isles · See more »

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

New!!: English Renaissance and Edmund Spenser · See more »

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

New!!: English Renaissance and Elizabeth I of England · See more »

Elizabethan architecture

Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings of aesthetic ambition constructed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland from 1558-1603.

New!!: English Renaissance and Elizabethan architecture · See more »

Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

New!!: English Renaissance and Elizabethan era · See more »

Elizabethan literature

Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.

New!!: English Renaissance and Elizabethan literature · See more »

English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

New!!: English Renaissance and English language · See more »

English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

New!!: English Renaissance and English literature · See more »

English Madrigal School

The English Madrigal School was the brief but intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them.

New!!: English Renaissance and English Madrigal School · See more »

English Reformation

The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

New!!: English Renaissance and English Reformation · See more »

English Renaissance theatre

English Renaissance theatre—also known as early modern English theatre and Elizabethan theatre—refers to the theatre of England between 1562 and 1642.

New!!: English Renaissance and English Renaissance theatre · See more »

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

New!!: English Renaissance and Francis Bacon · See more »

Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

New!!: English Renaissance and Francis Beaumont · See more »

Francis Hubert

Sir Hubert Francis (died 1629) was an English poet.

New!!: English Renaissance and Francis Hubert · See more »

Funerary art

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.

New!!: English Renaissance and Funerary art · See more »

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

New!!: English Renaissance and Geoffrey Chaucer · See more »

George Chapman

George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, c. 1559 – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet.

New!!: English Renaissance and George Chapman · See more »

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

New!!: English Renaissance and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · See more »

Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England, south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

New!!: English Renaissance and Hampton Court Palace · See more »

Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (Hans Holbein der Jüngere) (– between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.

New!!: English Renaissance and Hans Holbein the Younger · See more »

Hardwick Hall

Hardwick Hall, in Derbyshire, is an architecturally significant Elizabethan country house in England, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house.

New!!: English Renaissance and Hardwick Hall · See more »

Hatfield House

Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Hatfield House · See more »

House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

New!!: English Renaissance and House of Tudor · See more »

Iconoclasm

IconoclasmLiterally, "image-breaking", from κλάω.

New!!: English Renaissance and Iconoclasm · See more »

Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations.

New!!: English Renaissance and Illuminated manuscript · See more »

Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer

Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries.

New!!: English Renaissance and Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer · See more »

Isaac Oliver

Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 – bur. 2 October 1617) or Olivier was a French-born English portrait miniature painter.

New!!: English Renaissance and Isaac Oliver · See more »

Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

New!!: English Renaissance and Italian language · See more »

Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century (Trecento) and lasted until the 17th century (Seicento), marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe.

New!!: English Renaissance and Italian Renaissance · See more »

Jacob Burckhardt

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields.

New!!: English Renaissance and Jacob Burckhardt · See more »

Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

New!!: English Renaissance and Jacobean architecture · See more »

Jacobean era

The Jacobean era refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland (1567–1625), who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era, and is often used for the distinctive styles of Jacobean architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature which characterized that period.

New!!: English Renaissance and Jacobean era · See more »

James Shirley

James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an English dramatist.

New!!: English Renaissance and James Shirley · See more »

John Donne

John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Donne · See more »

John Dowland

John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Dowland · See more »

John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (1579–1625) was a Jacobean playwright.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Fletcher (playwright) · See more »

John Ford (dramatist)

John Ford (1586c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Ford (dramatist) · See more »

John Gower

John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Gower · See more »

John Lydgate

John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Lydgate · See more »

John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

New!!: English Renaissance and John Webster · See more »

King James Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

New!!: English Renaissance and King James Version · See more »

Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

New!!: English Renaissance and Landscape painting · See more »

Langley Chapel

Langley Chapel is an Anglican church, built in 1601, located in a remote area (the parish of Ruckley and Langley) approximately 1.5 miles to the south of Acton Burnell, Shropshire, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Langley Chapel · See more »

Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

New!!: English Renaissance and Latin · See more »

Layer Marney Tower

Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Layer Marney Tower · See more »

Le Morte d'Arthur

Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.

New!!: English Renaissance and Le Morte d'Arthur · See more »

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

New!!: English Renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci · See more »

Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

New!!: English Renaissance and Literature · See more »

Little Moreton Hall

Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated half-timbered manor house southwest of Congleton in Cheshire, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Little Moreton Hall · See more »

Lorna Hutson

Lorna Margaret Hutson, FBA (born 27 November 1958) is the ninth Merton Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

New!!: English Renaissance and Lorna Hutson · See more »

Lucas Horenbout

Lucas Horenbout, often called Hornebolte in England (c.1490/1495–1544), was a Flemish artist who moved to England in the mid-1520s and worked there as "King's Painter" and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII from 1525 until his death.

New!!: English Renaissance and Lucas Horenbout · See more »

Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

New!!: English Renaissance and Madrigal · See more »

Mannerism

Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.

New!!: English Renaissance and Mannerism · See more »

Medieval literature

Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Florentine Renaissance in the late 15th century).

New!!: English Renaissance and Medieval literature · See more »

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

New!!: English Renaissance and Michelangelo · See more »

Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

New!!: English Renaissance and Middle Ages · See more »

Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

New!!: English Renaissance and Middle English · See more »

Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

New!!: English Renaissance and Music · See more »

Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Nicholas Hilliard · See more »

Nicholas Yonge

Nicholas Yonge (also spelled Young, Younge; c. 1560 in Lewes, Sussex – buried 23 October 1619 in St Michael, Cornhill, London) was an English singer and publisher.

New!!: English Renaissance and Nicholas Yonge · See more »

Nonsuch Palace

Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace, built by Henry VIII in Surrey, England; it stood from 1538 to 1682–83.

New!!: English Renaissance and Nonsuch Palace · See more »

Occasional poetry

Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion.

New!!: English Renaissance and Occasional poetry · See more »

On Monsieur's Departure

On Monsieur’s Departure is an Elizabethan poem attributed to Elizabeth I. It is written in the form of a meditation on the failure of her marriage negotiations with Francis, Duke of Anjou yet has also been attributed to her alleged affair with, and love of, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

New!!: English Renaissance and On Monsieur's Departure · See more »

Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist.

New!!: English Renaissance and Philip Massinger · See more »

Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

New!!: English Renaissance and Philip Sidney · See more »

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman (written 1370–90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.

New!!: English Renaissance and Piers Plowman · See more »

Portrait miniature

A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolour, or enamel.

New!!: English Renaissance and Portrait miniature · See more »

Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England

The portraiture of Elizabeth I of England illustrates the evolution of English royal portraits in the Early Modern period from the representations of simple likenesses to the later complex imagery used to convey the power and aspirations of the state, as well as of the monarch at its head.

New!!: English Renaissance and Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England · See more »

Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

New!!: English Renaissance and Printing press · See more »

Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

New!!: English Renaissance and Renaissance · See more »

Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism is the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

New!!: English Renaissance and Renaissance humanism · See more »

Roger Ascham

Roger Ascham (c. 151530 December 1568)"Ascham, Roger" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

New!!: English Renaissance and Roger Ascham · See more »

Roman School

In music history, the Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly church music, in Rome, during the 16th and 17th centuries, therefore spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

New!!: English Renaissance and Roman School · See more »

Scientific method

Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.

New!!: English Renaissance and Scientific method · See more »

Sonnet

A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

New!!: English Renaissance and Sonnet · See more »

Sutton Place, Surrey

Sutton Place, 3 miles north-east of Guildford in Surrey, is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house built c. 1525 by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), courtier of Henry VIII.

New!!: English Renaissance and Sutton Place, Surrey · See more »

The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

New!!: English Renaissance and The Faerie Queene · See more »

Thomas Dekker (writer)

Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Dekker (writer) · See more »

Thomas Hoccleve

Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426) was an English poet and clerk who has been seen as a key figure in 15th-century Middle English literature.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Hoccleve · See more »

Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Kyd · See more »

Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Malory · See more »

Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelled Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Middleton · See more »

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 14786 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas More · See more »

Thomas Morley

Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Morley · See more »

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601) is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Nashe · See more »

Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis (1505 – 23 November 1585) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music, and is considered one of England's greatest composers.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Tallis · See more »

Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.

New!!: English Renaissance and Thomas Wyatt (poet) · See more »

Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

New!!: English Renaissance and Timber framing · See more »

Tudor period

The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603.

New!!: English Renaissance and Tudor period · See more »

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

New!!: English Renaissance and University of Cambridge · See more »

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and University of Oxford · See more »

Venetian School (music)

In music history, the Venetian School was the body and work of composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610.

New!!: English Renaissance and Venetian School (music) · See more »

Vernacular

A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.

New!!: English Renaissance and Vernacular · See more »

Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

New!!: English Renaissance and Visual arts · See more »

Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

New!!: English Renaissance and Walter Raleigh · See more »

Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, associated with a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose.

New!!: English Renaissance and Wars of the Roses · See more »

Western canon

The Western canon is the body of Western literature, European classical music, philosophy, and works of art that represents the high culture of Europe and North America: "a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature".

New!!: English Renaissance and Western canon · See more »

William Byrd

William Byrd (birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623), was an English composer of the Renaissance.

New!!: English Renaissance and William Byrd · See more »

William Langland

William Langland (Willielmus de Langland; 1332 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.

New!!: English Renaissance and William Langland · See more »

William Rowley

William Rowley (c.1585 – February 1626) was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers.

New!!: English Renaissance and William Rowley · See more »

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

New!!: English Renaissance and William Shakespeare · See more »

William Tyndale

William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; &ndash) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution.

New!!: English Renaissance and William Tyndale · See more »

Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England.

New!!: English Renaissance and Wollaton Hall · See more »

Redirects here:

English renaissance, Renaissance English literature.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »