Literature in the Renaissance

Humanist thinking: e.g. Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Francis Bacon’s Essays (1625)

Sonnets: Thomas Wyatt first introduced the sonnets into English literature; 

Lyrical poetry: Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (《阿卡迪亚》); Edmund Spenser’s The Fairy Queen (《仙后》); 

Drama: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Fausus; The Jew of Malta  (Marlowe made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama 素体诗剧), Robert Greene, William Shakespeare