restoration n renaissance periods (1485 - 1660)

• renaissance occurs between 15th - 17th centuries across Europe

• covers tudor, elizabethan, jacobean n commonwealth rule in england

• break w catholic church

• spanish invasion

• english civil war - puritanism
  ‘discovery’ n global trade

writers:

• spenser

• shakespeare

• marlow

• ben jonson

• john donne

• milton

• andrew marvell

key features:

• conflicting views of religion n sexual freedom

• development of novels, travel-writing, biographies, journalism

• more humanist approach n focus on emotion/development of character

• ‘metaphysical’ poetry