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Renaissance(s)

Shakespeare and Elizabeth

Middle English appears

Early Modern(n't)

Early Modern English

16th century

14th century

12th century

15th century

17th century

• The end of the English Renaissance, AKA Early Modern.

• The End of Middle English.
• Chancery Standard regularizes English.
• William Caxton vernacular's literature flourishes.

Wyclif's Bible establishes English as literary language.

• English Renaissance, AKA: "The age of Shakespeare" or "The Elizabeth era".
• Poetry: Edmund Spenser, John Milton.
• Playwrights: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare.
• Ending the Tudor Dynasty, philosophers like Sir Mor and Sir Bcon publish their ideas on a perfect society.
• Bacon publishes the Baconian Method.
• Flourish of English Literature.

• European Renaissance originates.
• Geoffrey Chaucer: father of English Lit.

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