Renaissance

Prose
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

Utopia



Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

The Defense of Poetry



John Lyly (1554-1606)

The Anatomy of Wit



Poetry
Latin and Italian Influence
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Astrophilp and Stella



Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)

Amoretti
"Prothalamion"
The Fairie Queene



William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

 

Sonnets



Theatre
Cristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Doctor Faustus



Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

The Spanish Tragedy