Comparison of Elizabethan age with other ages of literature :
:Lierature:
All art is the expression of life in forms of truth and beauty......
W. J. Long
Elizabethan age - the age of Renaissance:
Renaissance means rebirth or reawakening from darkness. In England the Renaissance takes place from the 14th century to the 17th century. The Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy , literature and art.
The Renaissance age with the Puritan age :~
The Elizabethan age also known as the Renaissance age. This age begun during 1558 and end up with the year 1603. In this age the Queen was Elizabeth.
Where the Puritan age begun during 1625 to 1660. After James 1 death. The age is also known as the age of Milton.
Comparison:
The Elizabethan age governed by queen Elizabeth , who was gave freedom to her kingdom and her people to do anything as they like. She first saw her nation's welfare . But in the Puritan age under the Stuart's all these were changed . The kings were open enemies of the people.
Literature:~
The literature of Elizabethan age is inspiring . The literature is for youth . The age produced so many romantic writer. And produced romantic literature , where as in the Puritan age the lyrics and love poems takes intellectual place. In Puritan age poets believes in spirit rather than romanticism.
In the Puritan age there were no unity spirit in literature but Elizabethan literature has the unity spirit in its literature.
Writers from both ages:
Both ages produced fabulous writers but the writers of Elizabethan age were more famous--
~ ELIZABETHAN AGE WRITERS~
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlow
- Frances Bacon
- Edmund spenser
~ PURITAN AGE ~
- John Milton
- Frances Bacon
- John Bunyan
So we can say that both ages different from each other.
Elizabethan age with Victorian age:
Victorian era begin during 1837 and end up with the year 1901 , the reign of queen Victoria. And therefore the age is known as Victorian age and also known as the age of Milton.
Literature~
Both age have different kind of literature . The Elizabethan age is know for the age of drama. And at this time prose and fiction didn't exist.
The Victorian era introduced the prose, fiction and poetry to the literature.
The Elizabethan age is the age of class people. And the literature only high educated people can read. But the Victorian era, it is the era for ordinary man. The age of poverty and working class.
BACKGROUND OF DRAMA AND PROSE~
In the Elizabethan age the background mainly based on high class people and kingdom. But in the Victorian era the background based on ordinary people.
THE LANGUAGE~
In the Elizabethan era the use of language was little hard and comman or ordinary people can't not read that literature . But in the Victorian era the literature is also written for working class , so ordinary people can easily read the literature.
A brief introduction of John Marston.
JOHN MARSTON
John Marston was an English poet and playwright.
BORN - 7 October { baptised - a Christian ritual}
DIED -. 25 June , 1634.
EARLY LIFE.....
He was born at Warrington , Oxfordshire. His father was a lowyer. He received his B.A. degree from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1592. He married with Mary Wilkes in 1605.
WORKS---
He published THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PIGMALION'S image and certaine satyres , a book of poetry in 1598.
In September 1599, he bagan to work for Philip Henslowe as a playwright. His other works.......
- Histriomastix
- Antonio and Mellida
- Jack Drum's Entertainment.
