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The english Renaissence usually referse to the 16th and early 17th century, exactly in 1485 with the accession of the House of Tudor.<br>
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The term Renaissance means a new born when a revival study of the classics culture and society.<br>
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Becuse England was an island and the new influence that arrive by Europe develop so late.<br>
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In the Renaissance people have a new discover of the human been, spiritual and fisical.<br>
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In the sonnet there is the exaltation of the woman, the auctor love all of this woman. Infact the standart theme of English sonnet was the courtly love:
the poet is in love with a lady he can't have. In the ballad there isn' t the exaltation of the woman but it tells about some stories without going into details, characterization,ect. connected with music
and sing.<br>
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The English sonnet is characterised by embodies four divisions: three quartans each one with a particulaty rhyme - scheme and a rhymed coupld:
abab bcbc cdcd ee. The coupled at the end is an apigrammatic clouse. The theme is the courtly love of the poet for a woman.
It belived to come from the medioeval songs.<br>
The English ballad is characterised: the folk ballads are one stanzas but litteraly ballads are composed of a lot of stanzas. The ballads there
passed orally from generation to generation as songs.<br>