AGES ERA PERIOD
16TH CENTURY
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Question
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Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
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William Shakespeare’s King Lear
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Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
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Thomas More’s Utopia
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Detailed explanation-1: -First written in Latin, Utopia was later translated into other European languages-German, Italian, and French editions appeared in 1550, and an English edition was translated posthumously in 1551.
Detailed explanation-2: -Renaissance Music Period (1500-1600) The Renaissance Period (Sixteen-century literature) is also called the Elizabethan Period or the age of Shakespeare in English Literature. It is a literary phase/age/period named after the central literary figures or the essential rulers of England. Renaissance means rebirth.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Laws of Aethelberht I of Kent, written at the turn of the 7th century, are the earliest surviving English prose work.
Detailed explanation-4: -In an age which valued highly structured poetry, the sonneta poem of 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme, a poem of 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme, was one of the most popular forms.
Detailed explanation-5: -The history of English Literature starts with the Anglo-Saxons and Germanic settlers in Anglo-Saxon England in the 5th century, c.450. The oldest English literature was in Old English which is the earliest form of English and is a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects.