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Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...
Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print; British Women Playwrights around 1800; The Brown University Women Writers Project; A Celebration of Women Writers; Emory Women Writers Resource Project; Images of Early Modern, 20th and 21st Century British Female Playwrights; List of biographical dictionaries, with a focus on 17thc ...
This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. Nota bene: Authors of poetry are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.
Elizabethan literature is considered one of the "most splendid" in the history of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first English novels.
The notion of a great Elizabethan era depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign. [193] As Elizabeth aged, her image gradually changed. She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem.
The Gascoigne Seminar "is a discussion list for scholars working on George Gascoigne and other early Elizabethan writers, to facilitate the exchange of ideas about the generation at the very beginning of the English literary renaissance.” "Gascoigne, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 493– 494.
Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poet; Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet; Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist; Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of Parnassian movement
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers; Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England's first published poet; Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French ...