English Renaissance

The English renaissance was very delayed from the European movement in Florence during the 1400’s but there was many great works and essays when the movement finally did come about. Renaissance with the French meaning rebirth was used to describe the change in ways of the past or “rebirth”. The renaissance was greatly represented and made understandable by the works of English literature of that time. During the English renaissance there were literary works of playwrights, philosophers, and poets that all represented the movement. The English Renaissance was started around 1485 near 100 years after it had started in Europe, and the real start of the rebirth is said to be Battle of Bosworth Field which formally started the Tudor Dynasty and end of the “War of the Roses”. Most works did not come about in England till the 1600’s at the height of the English renaissance. There was a large difference between the English renaissance and that of the movement in Italy; the English renaissance is more of works of music and literature while in Italy the focus was on visual arts. Philosopher Francis Bacon and Queen Elizabeth herself both wrote of problems with way things are done. Both wrote of their own views on the way that people are, Francis Bacon wrote to warn of the ways and Elizabeth wrote to try to represent the ways of man. The literary works of writers, poets, and playwrights represented the English Resistance and the views of the time. Francis Bacon was a famous philosopher during the English Renaissance, he wrote religious/literary, scientific, and juridical works. Much of his work greatly represented the renaissance, some of his scientific writings lead to the creation of the Baconian Method or what is now known as the scientific method. Bacon wrote about man, and improving the learning habits, because at the time English improvement of learning was at a standstill. Francis Bacon was known as a man of science, his studies on man led to the essays that