Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

Let's take a look at London theater and the playwrights who set the stage for Shakespeare. The Renaissance came to England late, thanks to a Hundred Years War that ran long and a civil war to decide ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (SEL) focuses on four fields of British Literature which rotate quarterly as follows: ...

The Renaissance entered Britain tardily, and on tip-toe. When Henry VII demolished the old Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey in 1502, he replaced it with something more extravagantly gothic, with ...

A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening. By Jonathan Healey Jonathan Healey is ...

Ampersand, a professional a cappella vocal ensemble, is bringing the music of the English Renaissance to Rutland. “I find the 16th century in England to be such fascinating time for music, ...

If you close your eyes and picture an artistic genius, chances are that the portrait will be framed by a Romantic ideal that took shape 200 years ago: an artist dedicated solely to his (almost always ...