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Shakespeare’s Hamlet Renaissance it is marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17th centuries. It first started from Italy and then spread all over Europe. The renaissance, which means “rebirth” or “revival”, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. Humanism: it is the essence of the Renaissance. Humanism is a system of beliefs upheld by writers and artists of the Renaissance period in their fighting against medieval asceticism. It states that man is godly, that man is able to find truth, goodness and beauty, and that man is in control of the present life rather than being controlled by God. Briefly, humanism puts man at the center of their beliefs and takes man to be the measure of every thing while the former asceticism puts God at the center of their beliefs and takes personal salvation to be the most important thing on the earth for man. Religious reformation: it is Martin Luther, a German Protestant, who initiated the Reformation. Luther believed that every true Christian was his own priest and was entitled to interpret the Bible for himself blank verse: is the unrhymed iambic pentameter line, It was Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey who first brought it in and Marlowe who perfected it with his “mighty line” The University Wits—John Lyly; Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe; Thomas Kyd; Thomas Lodge and Christopher Marlowe. They were the immediate p