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2 unusual facts about English Renaissance


Naish Priory

The extant 14th century buildings evidence primary links to the important de Courtenay family of the medieval period, Earls of Devon, close blood relatives of the Plantagenet, Lancastrian and Tudor kings, and one of the most important English Renaissance families.

Rictor Norton

His doctoral dissertation was on homosexual themes in English Renaissance literature.


Champlin Architecture

At the turn of the 20th Century, Harry Hake designed buildings such as the Art Deco Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building, the English Renaissance Queen City Club, and the Greek Revival Western Southern Life Insurance Co. Headquarters.

Oxford's Men

The Earl of Oxford’s Men, alternatively Oxford’s Players, were acting companies in late Medieval and Renaissance England patronised by the Earls of Oxford.

Shakespeare Institute

The Shakespeare Institute is a centre for postgraduate study dedicated to the study of William Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance.

The Cardinall's Musick

Taking its name from the 16th-century English cardinal, Thomas Wolsey, the group’s reputation grew through its extensive study of music from the English Renaissance.


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1563 in music

John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist (died 1626)

Appius and Virginia

Webster was not the first English Renaissance playwright to dramatize the story of Appius Claudius Crassus and Verginia; another play with the same title and subject matter had been published in 1576, as the work of "R. B.," probably a Richard Bower.

David Norbrook

In Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Norbrook explains the political context and events that influenced writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.

John Sinclair

John Sinklo, sometimes known as John Sinclair, English renaissance actor

Lodowick Carlell

, The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

Peacham

Henry Peacham (the name shared by two English Renaissance writers who were father and son)

Playing company

The explosion of popular drama that began when James Burbage built the first fixed and permanent venue for drama, The Theatre, in 1576 was the one great step away from the medieval organizational model and toward the commercial theatre; but that evolution was, at best, a "work in progress" throughout the English Renaissance.

Thomas Shelmerdine

Toxteth Library, in Windsor Street, a balanced English Renaissance style building, was set out by him in 1902.

Translatio studii

The metaphor of "translatio studii" went out of fashion in the 18th century, but such English Renaissance authors as George Herbert were already predicting that learning would move next to America.

William Tisdall

William Tisdale (alternative spelling), English renaissance composer