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English and Renaissance
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 '.
Category: English Renaissance dramatists
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.
* English Renaissance
The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.
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.
Category: English Renaissance plays
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.
( The use of so-called Law French in English courts continued through the Renaissance, however.
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.
* 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter ( Renaissance and Nevada )
John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.
The result has been termed an English " Renaissance palace ".
Female homoeroticism, however, was so common in English literature and theater that historians suggest it was fashionable for a period during the Renaissance.
Category: English Renaissance plays
* 1943 – Keith Relf, English musician ( The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Armaggedon ) ( d. 1976 )

English and theatre
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.
The result was a new crispness and polish in the English musical theatre.
* 1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager ( d. 1937 )
James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.
Category: English theatre directors
* 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
* 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English musical theatre composer
Category: English musical theatre actors
Category: English theatre directors
* English Renaissance theatrealso 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.
* September 2 – Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
* September 12 – Rupert D ' Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario ( b. 1876 )
* November 3 – Rupert D ' Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario ( d. 1948 )
** Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic ( d. 1980 )
* September 23 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian ( d. 1726 )
* January 6 – Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager ( b. 1550 )
* March 6 – Francis Beaumont, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre ( b. 1584 )

English and also
English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.
A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.
The English, relying on a prejudiced arbiter and confronted with superior diplomatic skill, were also hampered in their negotiations by the events that were taking place at home.
The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.
These shifts in alliance and allegiance not only increased the difficulties confronting the English embassy as a whole, but also directly involved the two Savoyards, Amadee and Othon.
and also of English Youth and any others ''.
There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.
It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.
Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.
He also developed literary skills to write poetry in English.
Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Fingerspelling as the main form of communication is known as the Rochester Method, also known as Visible English.
* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally
There are also a few " natural " instances: English words unconsciously created by switching letters around.
It has also been speculated that the English " curd " comes from the Latin crudus (" raw ").
Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().
Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology.
André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.
Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.
An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

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