The Renaissance is that cultural expression result of a transition period from middle Ages to Humanism, when the human being realised the real life is almost important than religious life. To find a question of the contrast between the two realities, the man began to study the classics and for the same reason, the monologue and soliloquy born, id est to speak about contrast between spirituality and passion.

In the middle Ages, the religion gave all the questions, particularly from the Aristotelian philosophy and Manicheism. In the period of transition, this vision of a life directed to the salvation after death did not work anymore for the mediaeval man, because he failed to make sense to his life: the values he believed in were not enough to live better.

The middle Ages repressed all the instincts, all the areas of experience except the spiritual ones. These instincts became more and more powerful; therefore, the man began to feel the importance of the emotions, of love, of sufferance and cannot ever to repress these forces. The man understand instincts are almost important than religion, so he tried to combine these two aspects of life.

It takes a period of transition, called Humanism, to perform this operation. This period put the man in the centre of the world with God. In the transition, the man conserve his religiosity, but he understand there is also other, he understand to be made by soul and body.

This concept allows us to understand why the Renaissance man red classics: to find questions to conciliate these realities. He particularly red classics because to find a question applicable to reality, he must search in the words of who has more experience than him, he must search in Latin culture because it has pragmatic values useful to live.

The English Renaissance developed after the Italian one because it taked time the translations of the texts arrived in in England. Seneca and Plutarco were the classics writers that more influenced the England ones, because they were be useful to write dramas.

The art reflects the meaning of things. The most important literary genre in the England renaissance was the lyric poetry because it express the contrast or the contradiction between the religious principle and the material principle.

In the England renaissance, the drama developed a lot because it liked at all kind of people, indeed it merge narration with lyric, middle ages with renaissance, so each social class could enjoy an aspect of a drama.