Description
The Three R’s: Renaissance, Restoration and Romanticism: Discussion on how Literature reflected the History of England from 1500 to 1870. Using Shakespeare as our departure point—concentrating on how the Italian movement of the Renaissance allowed/encouraged English authors to delve into the interior workings of the mind and individualism—thereby countering the legacy of feudalism. The Restoration period of 1660, with Dryden and Milton, includes the restoration of the Stuarts and the Romantic period from 1798 to 1870 of Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Jane Austin incorporates the use of imagination—influenced by the French Revolution.
