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The Elizabethan age

1. Features of Elizabethan Age
Name : UpadhyayDevanganaS
Roll No : 7
Semester : 1
Paper : The Renaissance Literature
Department : English
M. K. Bhavnagar University
Guided by : Dr Dilip Barad

2. The features of the
Elizabethan Age
The Elizabethan Age

3. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
Golden age in English history
Queen Elizabeth –1 (1558-1603)
Production of great poetry and drama
The Age of Shakespeare
Feeling of patriotism and nationalism
Most glorious age in the history of England

4. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
Cultural
background
Political
background
Social
background

5. The Renaissance
Renaissance had its birth in Italy
It spread in Germany
Than Spain, France, Netherland and
England
The age produced geniuses like
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney
“Man started to hinkfor themselves and
started questioning accepted beliefs.”

6. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
Humanism
The Reformation
Nationalism
An Age of Material Advancement
New Discoveries
Printing and Education
Revival of interest in Greek and Latin
Literature

7. The Development of Drama
In 1576, James Burbage built first
playhouse
Called the Theatre, in suburb of London
University Wits:
Peele, Green, Nash, Lodge and the
greatest of them Marlowe
The Drama reached at the heights in the
hands of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Jacobean period decline in drama
standards

8. The Popularity of Poetry
The development of Poetry is the
strongest characteristic of the age
Atmosphere of England full of song
England become the nest of singing birds
The chief forms of poetry:
Lyric, sonnet, Narrative poetry

9. Prose and Novel
The development of prose was not very
great
It was very slow comparison to poetry
Bacon is the father of modern English
prose
Sir Philip Sidney's “Arcadia” and “New
Atlantic of Bacon become very popular
English novel made its first proper
appearance during this age

10. Thank you