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    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHIAPAS

    MARGARITO ESCALANTE CRUZ


    LITERATURA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA
    ELIZABETHAN PROSE LITERATURE
    PROFESSOR: MARIA MAGDALENA ESCOBAR MENDOZA
    OCTOBER 31ST 2021
    ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE

    WORKS
    AUTHORS INFLUENCED ON
    POETRY DRAMA PROSE
    John Lyly-s (1554-1606) Euphues, the Anatomy of It reflects the artificial style which
    Wit was popular in Europe
    Euphues and his England
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Arcadia Influenced on the poetic language
    and conceptions so it is a pastoral
    romance

    Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Shepherd’s Calendar Faerie Queene Influenced on Philip Sidney work and
    also from Sir Walter Raleigh

    John Heywood (1497-1580) The Four P’s Influenced on the court and the
    The Pardoner and the political situation in England
    Frere
    Nicholas Udall (1505-1556) Ralph Royster Doyster Influenced on a comedy of Plautus,
    classical.

    William Stevenson Gammer Gurton’s Needle Influenced on the classical stage

    Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) Induction The Tragedy of Gorboduc Influenced in the classical rules of
    Complaint of the Seneca and the Greeks.
    Duke of Buckingham
    George Peele’s (1558-1597) The Arraignment of Paris Influenced on the possibilities of the
    David and Bathsabe New World
    The Old Wives’ Tale
    Robert Greene (1560-1592) Friar Bacon and Friar Influenced in the theme of love.
    Bungay

    Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) Rosalynde


    A Looking Glass for
    London and England
    The Wounds of Civil War
    Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Summer’s Last Will and The Unfortunate Traveller
    Testament

    Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) The Spanish Tragedy Influenced from classical and
    romantic spirit.
    Cristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Tamburlaine Influenced from the ambition for
    Dr. Faustus controlling the world, the desire of
    knowledge
    The Jew of Malta
    Edward II
    George Chapman (1559-1634) Bussy D’Ambois Homer`s Iliad Translation
    The Revenge of Bussy
    D’Ambois
    Thomas Middleton Michaelmas Term, A Trick
    To Catch The Old One
    William Rowley (1585-1640)
    The Changeling
    John Marston (1576-1634) Antonio and Mellida,
    Eastward Hoe,

    Thomas Dekker (1570-1640) The Shoemaker’s Holiday

    Philip Massinger (1584-1640) A New Way to Pay Old Debts

    A Woman Killed with


    Thomas Heywood (1572-1650)
    Kindness
    William Skakespeare Venus and Adonis Twelfth Night Richard III Influenced from his mother he had a
    (1564-1616) As You Like It happy childhood and later he was
    Lucrece The Winter’s Tale Henry IV influenced by colleagues.
    Cymbeline
    154 Sonnets The Tempest Henry V
    Julious Caesar
    Julious Caesar
    Antony and Cleopatra
    Macbeth
    Hamlet
    Lear
    Othello
    Romeo and Juliet

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