1. Features of Elizabethan Age
Name : Upadhyay Devangana S
Roll No : 7
Semester : 1
Paper : The Renaissance Literature
Department : English
M. K. Bhavnagar University
Guided by : Dr Dilip Barad

2. The Elizabethan Age
The features of the
Elizabethan Age

3. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
 Golden age in English history
 Queen Elizabeth – 1 (1558-1603)
 Production of great poetry and drama
 The Age of Shakespeare
 Feeling of patriotism and nationalism
 Most glorious age in the history of England

4. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
Social
background
Political
background
Cultural
background

5. The Renaissance
 Renaissance had its birth in Italy
 It spread in Germany
 Than Spain, France, Netherland and
England
 The age produced geniuses like
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney
“Man started to hink for themselves and
started questioning accepted beliefs.”

6. The Features of the Elizabethan
Age
 Humanism
 The Reformation
 Nationalism
 An Age of Material Advancement
 New Discoveries
 Printing and Education
 Revival of interest in Greek and Latin
Literature

7. The Development of Drama
 In 1576, James Burbage built first
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playhouse
Called the Theatre, in suburb of London
University Wits:
Peele, Green, Nash, Lodge and the
greatest of them Marlowe
The Drama reached at the heights in the
hands of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Jacobean period decline in drama
standards

8. The Popularity of Poetry
 The development of Poetry is the
strongest characteristic of the age
 Atmosphere of England full of song
 England become the nest of singing birds
 The chief forms of poetry:
Lyric, sonnet, Narrative poetry

9. Prose and Novel
 The development of prose was not very
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great
It was very slow comparison to poetry
Bacon is the father of modern English
prose
Sir Philip Sidney's “Arcadia” and “New
Atlantic of Bacon become very popular
English novel made its first proper
appearance during this age

10. Thank you