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What do you see as the key features in the renaissance, in terms of its input on Elizabethan plays, and in what ways could Marlowe be said to be a typical renaissance figure.
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What do you see as the key features in the renaissance, in terms of its input on Elizabethan plays, and in what ways could Marlowe be said to be a typical renaissance figure. The word renaissance means rebirth. It describes the period in Europe's history when people exposed the art and knowledge of the past, and added additional innovative exhilarating features of their own. Around 1500 A.D. new ideas began to become known. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci looked back to ancient Greece and Rome for stimulation. Scientists such as Copernicus studied the world and disagreed with the church. There were also affluent merchants prepared to back new ideas and ventures. There were also various new ways of spreading knowledge, such as Gutenberg's then, recently invented printing press. I believe that humanist ideas had the greatest effect on the literature of the Elizabethan period. Renaissance Humanism is...
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