Topic : difference between Elizabethan and puritan age

1. PAPER :1
 Name : Amit s. Makvana
 Roll no : 01
 Enrollment No :
 Paper no : 1. The Renaissance literature
 Topic : Difference between Elizabethan and puritan
age
 M.A. Sem -1
 Batch : 2019 – 21
 Email ID : a.makwana10998@gmail.com

2. INTRODUCTION :
THE ELIZABETH AGE THE PURITAN AGE
 Golden age
 Time period – 1558 to 1603
 Rebirth
 Age of Shakespearean
 Queen Elizabeth 1 embodied
power and beauty
 The first theaters in England
appeared
 William Shakespeare
 Age of Reformation
 Time period – 1620 to 1660
 The literature of the 17th
century divided into two sub
periods :
. 1.Jacobean period ( James
1st 1603 -1625 )
2. Caroline period ( Charles
1st 1625 to 1649 )
 The Age of Milton

3. QUEEN ELIZABETH 1
 Considered to be
England’s “golden
age” .
 Ruled for 44 years
 Never married .huge
deals at the time.
 Nicknamed the “virgin
queen”

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF
ELIZABETHAN AGE
CHARACTERISTICS OF PURITAN
AGE
 The revival interest in Greek
literature
 Abundance of output
 The new Romanticism
 Translation in Elizabethan
age
 Spirit of Independence
 Development of Drama
 Popularity of poetry
 Prose and novel
 Genres
 Puritan age literature themes
 Writing style
 Puritan poetry
 Follow the path of the great
Renaissance writers
 The spirit infuses itself in the
form of criticism ,which was
truly the creation of puritan age
.
 Rebirth of the moral nature of
man which follow intellectual
awaking of Europe in 15 and 16

5. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
 Poetry : 1. Edmund Spencer (Shepherd’s calendar )
2. Michel drayton (The Harmonie of the church)
3. Philip Sidney ( Arcadia )
 Drama : 1. William Shakespeare ( Romeo and Juliet )
2. Ben Johnson ( Every man in His Humour )
 Prose : 1. Francis Bacon ( Instaurio magna )
2. Hakluyt and purchas
3. Thomas north ( Plutarch ‘s Lives ).

6. THE PURITAN AGE
 Poets :1. John Milton ( Paradise lost)
2. Edward Taylor (The New England Quarterly )
3. Samuel Daniel ( Delia )
 Song Writers : 1. Nicholas Breton ( The pilgrimage to paradise )
2. Thomas champion ( Fairest isle )
 Prose : 1. Izaak Walton (The compleat angler )
2. John Bunyan ( Pilgrim’s progress )
3. Sir Thomas Browne ( Religio Medici )
4. Robert Burton ( Anatomy).

7. WRITERS OF THE ELIZABETHAN AGE WRITERS OF THE PURITAN AGE
 Christopher Marlowe (1564 -
1593)
Famous works :
1. Doctor Faustus
2. Tamburlaine
3. The new of Malta
 Philip Sidney ( 1554 – 1586 )
Famous works :
1. Astrophel and Stella
2. An apology for poetry
3. Lyrics poems of sir Philip Sidney
 John Bunyan ( 1628 – 1688)
Famous works :
1. The pilgrim ‘s progress
2. The holy war
3. The Greatness of the soul
 Andrews Marvell (1621 – 1678
)
major works :
1. Samuel Parker
2. Mr. Smirke
3. The divine in mode

8.  Edmund Spencer poet ( 1552
– 1599)
major works : 1. The fairy
queen
2. The shepardes calendar
3. Astrophel
 William Shakespeare ( 1564 –
1616 )
Major works : 1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Othello
5. Ben Johnson ( 1573 – 1637 )
 Cotton Mather ( 1663 –
1728 )
major works :
1. wonder of the invisible world
2. Essays to do good
3. The Christian philosopher
 John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 )
1. Paradise lost
2. Paradise Regained
3. On the morning of Christ
nativity
4. Lycidas

9. THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
 The golden age of English history .
 famous for itsTheatre and the works of William Shakespeare
 Elizabethan Theatre begins with the opening of the “ the red
lion” Theatre in 1567.
 Other famous theatres : curtain theatre (1577)
: Globe theatre (1599)
 Shakespeare Is considered the greatest writer of the English
language .
 Important genres of theatres are history plays ,the tragedy
and the comady.

10. ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE :
 This literature written approximately during the time queen
Elizabethan (1558 – 1603) .
 POETRY : The most important poets include Edmund
Spencer ,the author of The faerie queene ,Walter Raleigh
,and William Shakespeare.
 DRAMA : Drama is the greatest form written during the
Elizabethan age . William Shakespeare is considered one of
the greatest playwrights of all times . His best works include
Hamlet ,king Lear ,Macbeth , Othello ,and merchant of
Venice .other important dramatists include Christopher
Marlowe and Ben Johnson .

11. ENGLISH FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHTS

12. PURITAN PERIOD :
 Clash between Catholics and Protestants
 Extreme fundamentalism
 Rebellion began during the age of Charles 1
 Civil war between Charles 1 and puritans for 7
years
 1649 -1660 Rule of Commonwealth under Oliver
Cromwell
 Charles 1 ascended the throne after the death of
Cromwell ; beginning of Restoration period