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SPittis - The Renaissance in England and the sonnet
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RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND (1485-1625)
The Elizabeth Age: golden period in English History - flowering of
English literature, poetry and theater.
Henry VII = first Tudor king - 1485.
Henry VIII = six marriage (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane.
Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine howard, Catherine Parr) - 1509/1547.
Edward VI - 1547/1553.
Mary I "Bloody Mary" - she married her cousin Phillip II -
1553/1558.
Elizabeth I - unmarried - 1558/1603.
rise of the great English navy - 1588 (decline of Spain after the
attack to England, which became a great sea power).
James, son of Mary, Queen of Scots - 1603/1625.