英国文学史第二讲：English Renaissance and Shakespeare.pptVIP

The English Renaissance  William Shakespeare the two great treasures of English language. The English Renaissance 1553-1558: Queen Mary – Counter-Reformation – hundreds of Protestants got burned as heretics. 1558-1603: Queen Elizabeth ended the bloody religious perse-cution. She made such reforms as more compatible with the monarchy and as would be accepted by as many people as possible, while she avoided the more uncompromising and democratic forms of Protestantism. ? “church settlement” of Elizabeth. The economic development Birth in Italy Stretching to England The flourishing of