Elizabethan Arts

Elizabethan literature, body of works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), probably the most impressive age in the history of English literature, during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Roger Ascham, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare prospered. The epithet Elizabethan is merely a chronological reference and does not describe any special characteristic of the writing.

The Elizabethan age saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse). It was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare), and inspired a wide variety of splendid prose (from historical chronicles, versions of the Holy Scriptures, pamphlets, and literary criticism to the first English novels). From about the beginning of the 17th century a sudden darkening of tone became noticeable in most forms of literary expression, especially in drama, and the change more or less coincided with the death of Elizabeth. English literature from 1603 to 1625 is properly called Jacobean, after the new monarch, James I.

The Elizabethan theatre expressed the plays, the drama, the people, the actors, the events and the history. The Elizabethan Theatre section covers all aspects of the Elizabethan Theatre. The history of the theater is fascinating. How plays were first produced in the yards of inns. The very first theater and the development of the amphitheatre.

Theatre during Elizabethan, England

The Elizabethan Era was filled with inventions that not only helped everyday life but advanced science a long way. Some examples would be the compound microscope, the telescope, and the water thermometer. Other miscellaneous inventions would be the knitting machine or the pencil.

Inventions

The Copernican Theory:

• Developed by Nicolaus Copernicus.

The theory states that the Earth is revolving around the sun,

States that it has three motions: Daily rotation, Annual Revolution and Annual tilting.

people could not acknowledge the idea of the Earth not being at the center of the universe.

Science During Elizabethan, England

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)- Made the first telescope

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)- Made it clear that the planets revolve around the sun.

William Harvey- Announced the discovery of the circulation of blood. Founded Human Physiology.

The Scientific Method- Based on Observing and Experimenting, this method is still used today.