• The beginnings of what we now describe as ‘Renaissance’ or ‘Early Modern’ English literature precede the accession of Elizabeth I (1558),
• but Renaissance literary culture only became firmly established in )England( in the second half of the sixteenth century.
• Similarly, while the literature produced between 1649 and the Restoration of the Monarchy (1660) could be said to belong to the Renaissance,
• the unusual historical context in which it was produced marks the Interregnum as a distinctive literary era. This is why this book concentrates on the literature of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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