What are the names of the five English dramatists? The term Elizabethan stretched to include Jacobean and Caroline dramatists-Ben Jonson...

Was Shakespeare in the Victorian era? Shakespeare; his life and character-The chronology of plays-A survey of the plays-Estimate of Shakespeare’s...

What is the history of drama? Religious origin of the drama in the middle ages-Miracle plays-Their collection in Cycles-Moralities: their...

Elizabethan prose characteristics. Elizabethan prose not so great as its poetry and drama-Prose translations before Spenser-Lyly’s Euphues-Its style-Sidney’s Arcadia-Other writers...

ELIZABETHAN POETRY : SPENSER’S CONTEMPORARIES SPENSER’S CONTEMPORARIES:Sidney: his Astrophel and Stella-The Sonneteers: Daniel, Drayton, Constable Shakespeare’s sonnets-Lyrics and songs in...

What is the meaning of Spenser? The Shepherd’s Calendar-Spenser: his life and works-The Fairy Queen in detail.Tottell‘s Miscellany appeared in...

What is the Tudor period in English literature? The Tudor period in English literature:The first fruits of the Renaissance: Tottel’s...

THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION. THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION:Sovereigns-Henry VII 1485-1509, Henry VIII 1509-1547, Edward VI 1547-1553, Mary 1553-1558,...

PROSE : What do you mean by prose? English Prose in the Fifteenth Century The Prose of the fifteenth century...

POETRY:Fifteenth century poetry characteristics. Fifteenth Century a barren period, specially in poetry-Possible causes of this-The English Chaucerians: Hoccleve and Lydgate-Skelton-Scottish...