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* English Renaissance theatre – also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642.
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Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.
He travelled across the United States spreading the idea of Aesthetics in a speech called " The English Renaissance.
" The English Renaissance was, he said, " like the Italian Renaissance before it, a sort of rebirth of the spirit of man ".
Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.
It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.
* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.
Florentine bankers financed the English kings during the Hundred Years War, as well as the papacy, including the construction of their provisional capital of Avignon and, after their return to Rome, the reconstruction and Renaissance embellishment of the latter.
Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.
Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.
John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.
Female homoeroticism, however, was so common in English literature and theater that historians suggest it was fashionable for a period during the Renaissance.
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Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.
Delroy Lindo ( born November 18, 1952 ) is an English actor, theatre director & London Buses Depot Manager.
During this period and into the Jacobean era that followed, the English theatre reached its highest peaks.
Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English: mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, evangelist etc.
James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.
* Mattheus passie ( 1976 ) ( text by Louis Ferron ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 2 oboes ( both + English horn ), Hammond organ, string quartet, double bass
* September 2 – Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
* September 23 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian ( d. 1726 )
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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).
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