FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Wyclif
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Thomas more
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John Lyly
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Robert Greene
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wycliffe translated the Bible into English, as he believed that everyone should be able to understand it directly. Wycliffe inspired the first complete English translation of the Bible, and the Lollards, who took his views in extreme forms, added to the Wycliffe Bible commentaries such as this one in Middle English.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first complete Bible in English was published abroad, most likely in Antwerp, in 1535. Myles Coverdale (1488-1569), an Augustinian friar from Yorkshire educated at Cambridge, ‘faithfully and truly translated [it] out of Douche [German] and Latin into English’.
Detailed explanation-3: -William Tyndale’s Bible was the first English language Bible to appear in print. During the 1500s, the very idea of an English language Bible was shocking and subversive. This is because, for centuries, the English Church had been governed from Rome, and church services were by law conducted in Latin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tyndale’s Bible is credited with being the first Bible translation in the English language to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate.