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The Renaissance Period
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This easy seeks to evaluate the Renaissance period, and give a critical appraisal of the play King Lear during this period. Using a political and historical context and explore one verse of literature

In England the renaissance was classified as the period which was named after the powerful English tutor Queen Elizabeth. The first who ruled great Britain for 45 years from 1558-1603.. In retrospect looking back from the perspective of the 20th century, the reign, of Elizabeth tends to shimmer in the historical imagination. She reign for 45 years, she restored political stability, and she settled the religious question, at least in prehistoric England. She survives a powerful foreign enemy Spain, and she presided in all her splendor in a brilliant court and flowering of English Literature. At the time that Elizabeth presided to the throne. England as an allied of Spain was at war with France. Queen Elizabeth described at the time as the virgin queen, was the daughter of Henry V111 and Anne Boleyn. Henry V111 notably noted in history for separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and turning it into a protestant nation from 1553-1558, Elizabeth served as queen during the greatest years of the English Renaissance. This was a time of growth and expansion, and over surpassed achievement in English literature. Notably works by William Shakespeare Edmund Spencer and Christopher Marlowe. It was the age when Spanish Armanda tried to conquer England the Age of English prosperity and power.
Elizabeth reign was flawed with crisis and danger especially in the early years. When Elizabeth came to the throne it was a strong recognition of the illegitimacy of the Tudor line. A major landmark of this period was the transfer of power from Elizabeth1 to James 1, which happen in 1603. Elizabeth had produced no male heir and the pressure in who would be her successor was quite frightful, it raised questions which were parallel to the



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