Edmund spenser biography in nutshell

  • Here is Spenser's career in a nutshell, according to the emphases of Hadfield's study, a phenomenal work of scholarship and insight, if not.
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  • Edmund Spenser invented the Spenserian stanza and used it in his The Faerie Queene.

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    Long ago, in the timeless realm we call Literature, a certain fox, we’ll call him Reynard, dragged a stinky red herring across the trail of a certain Court poet, sending the yelping hounds who were after his identity up a false trail, where they’ve been barking up one wrong tree after another ever since.  That red herring was the name William Shakespeare.  Dragged across the poet’s paper trail––the published plays that in performance, twenty years earlier, had launched the London Stage, it did what it was meant to do, it gave the author and his company the freedom they needed to keep on producing the plays that gave the actors a living and their world a good cry, a much needed belly laugh, and those inclined to philosophy something to think about.

    This red herring was successful in protecting the true author from the rage of the puritans who ran the nation, uptight ideologues, hungry for social power, who feared and hated the forces unleashed by the London Stage, forces that we k

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    5 History and Literature of the Time

    Dr. Mosarraf Hossain


    Content:

    •  Introduction
    •  History :
      •  Last Years of Elizabeth
      •  James I
      •  Charles I : Civil War
      •  Puritan Interregnum : Oliver Cromwell
      •  Charles II : Restoration
      •  James II : Glorious Revolution
      •  William III and Mary II
      •  William III
      •  Queen Anne
      •  George inom, George II & George III
    •  Literature:
      •  Culmination of relaterat till elizabethansk tid Age or Age of Shakespeare:
        • Poetry:
        • Drama: Four Stages of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art.
        • Prose:
      •  Jacobean Age:
      •  Caroline Age:
      •  Commonwealth Period:
      •  Restoration Period:
        • Drama: Heroic Tragedies; Comedy of Manners.
        • Poetry:
        • Prose:
      •  Augustan Period:
        • Poetry:
        • Drama:
        • Prose: Periodical Essay; Novel
      •  Age of Sensibility:
        • Poetry: Pre-Romantic Poetry; Graveyard Poetry
        • Prose: Sentimental Novel; Gothic Novel Drama:
    •  Conclusion

     

    Introduction:

     

    Some of the most precious and productive periods in the history of English Literature fall within the timeline 1

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