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The Elizabethan period 1. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. 2.“Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, I thou mak’st thy knife keen” In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a (n) pun. In King Lear , Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three categories: _philosophical ,purely literary and professional. Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works exc