Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.
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Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.
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Elizabethan literature translated the works of Montaigne from French into English.
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Elizabethan literature was a playwright, poet, and satirist, who is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller.
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Elizabethan literature is generally considered to be the author of the influential handbook on poetry and rhetoric, The Arte of English Poesie .
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Italian Elizabethan literature was an important influence on the poetry of Thomas Wyatt, one of the earliest English Renaissance poets.
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Elizabethan literature's works include Astrophel and Stella, An Apology for Poetry, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
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Central figures of the Elizabethan literature canon are Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.
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The earliest Elizabethan literature plays include Gorboduc, by Sackville and Norton, and Thomas Kyd's revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy .
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The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to, or parodied, in works written by other Elizabethan literature playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.
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Elizabethan literature is particularly remembered for The Shoemaker's Holiday, a work where he appears to be the sole author.
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