This presentation described the revolution of English Literature in the 14th century.

1. The Renaissance:
14th – 16th Century

2. Participants
Md. Moynul Haque Khan
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Md. Firoz Kabir
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Md. Zubayer Rahman
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Shaon Mahmud
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Akibur Rahman Ador
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Rizvi Ahmed Rupam
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Kowshik Kumar Paul
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Habib Wahid
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Al Arabi Mon
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Abdul Mukit
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Mohaiminul Islam
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3. Agendum
Renaissance Features of
Renaissance
Chain of Being
Origins of
Renaissance
Theatre
Humanism
Renaissance
Drama
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4. Agendum
Elezabethan
Drama
Picture of
Elezabethan
Society
Renaissance
Writers
Christopher
Marlowe
Religious
Picture
Doctor Faustus
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5. RENAISSANCE
An Italian word that means re-birth or
regeneration or reawakening.
A revolution reviving the spirit of Greek and Latin
learning. This revival of classical knowledge is
called the Renaissance. It was characterized
by a revival of the arts and sciences.
Literature art and theatre all flourished in this
period.

6. Features of Renaissance
 Intellectual rebirth.
 Freedom of speech.
 Thirst for knowledge.
 Humanism.

7. Humanism
Humanism began as a scholarly and
artistic movement in Italy. In the late
14th century and it spread across
Europe. The word humanism is
mainly refer to attitudes of life that
were determined by the admirations
of human beings an human culture
as oppose to admiring god and
theology

8. Chain of Being
A concept derived from
Plato, Aristotle. Stretched
from the foot of God.

9. Origin of renaissance
theatre
Renaissance theater began in Italy,
with scholars initially attempting to
recreate the original Greek and Roman
works, and later adapting to
contemporary dress and speech. The
new interest in classical drama began
with the re-discovery of Euripides,
Seneca, Plautus and Terence

10. Renaissance Drama
Drama during the renaissance period
saw a shift from medieval mystery
plays to more secular, historical and
classical influenced works. William
Shakespeare is widely considered one
of the greatest play rights of the
English renaissance and his works are
still widely performed and studied
today.

11. Elizabethan Drama
 Tragedy has to be tragedy from
first to last.
 Violation of three unities.

12. Picture of Elizabethan
Society
Elizabethan had 04 Main Classes. They are:
 Nobility
 The Gentry
 The Yeomanry
 The poor
A persons class determined how they
could dress, where they could live and the
kinds of jobs people and their children
could get.

13. Religious Picture
The two main religions in
Elizabethan age were Catholic
and Protestants.

14. Renaissance Writers
 Romantic Imagination and the
humanitarian idealism
 Religious dogmatism

15. Cristopher Marlowe
 First major dramatist of
Elizabethan period.
 Dramatic blank verse.
 1564 - 1593

16. Doctor Faustus
 Romantic Imagination and the
humanitarian idealism
 Religious dogmatism

17. Thank You