Renaissance and its effect on Europe
The Renaissance. How Did Renaissance Evolve?
What was the effect of Renaissance on Europe and the culture of the world.
Renaissance and Europe
Renaissance is named awakening in greater sense. When did Renaissance happen? What was the effect of Renaissance?
In this article we are going to discuss in detail the effects of Renaissance
Renaissance and its Effect on Europe
The Renaissance denotes in its broader sense the continuous enlightenment of human mind when the mind of people was beset with darkness of middle ages. The term 'Renaissance' is generally used to refer to the whole movement that actually helped man discover himself and the universe.
The Renaissance began in Italy and was started in 1453 when Constantinople was destroyed. So whata was the result? The result was that Indian cities became centres of Greek study and classical essence of literature. That means England got the taste of classical literature.
What was the result of the study of the Greeks?
--- Their study revealed that human life should be lived for its opportunities and many-folded development and enjoyment.
The Renaissance basically opend up a new movement in the history. And that was Humanism. In the middle ages man and his actions were considered against God, so it was a God-centred world. With the advent of Renaissance and the discovery of classical literature this outlook changed. People started believing in their potential. The actions of a medieval man was guided by the consideration of heaven and hell. He regarded his life as a bubble and was not proud of achievement.
So what did Renaissance do?
The Renaissance awakened man to the infinite possibilities of human mind and faculties. A Renaissance man was ready to take to any menas to reach the infinite possibilities.
The Renaissance greatly influenced the moral outlook of man. The human body so long despised and ill-treated came to be glorified.
The glorification of human body gave birth to what known as sensuousness in poetical parlance.
The Renaissance was in essence an intellectual rebirth. Man emancipated himself in the force of Renaissance from the rigid rules of life and set himself free.. Man turned more and more to the present world, to the problems of gaining capacity to handle the problems of life and discovering the secret of life to its fullest core.
The impact of Renaissance on Elizabethan age , specially in poetry, drama and prose was great.
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Let's now discuss the influence of Renaissance on Poetry:
The influence of Italian Renaissance had great influence to rescue English Poetry from "the languor which had overtaken it with such poets as Stephen Hewes and from the artistic disarray which such poets as Skeleton had brought upon it."(Legouis).
The two poets undertook the task of this rescue were Wyatt and Surrey. These poets brought a new movement in poetry through their introduction of Sonnet in to English Literature. Together they introduced Italian love poetry which had been made popular by Petrarch, an Italian poet and also by his followers.
Surrey was the first English poet to use the unrhymed, ten-syllabled verse which was named as "blank verse". Wyatt was responsible for the introduction of a personal note in English poetry.
Spenser is called the child of Renaissance. He shared in the rich life which the Renaissance had opened to me . His poem "The Faerie Queene" is a long procession of figures, wonderful landscapes. There are many passages in which he makes nature an element of pleasure. Spenser had firm belief in the immortal sense of poetry. He dedicated this collection to Elizabeth.
Influence on Drama
Under the influence of Renaissance the moralities underwent a thorough secularisation. The character of interlude were real men and women. The regular English drama was the product of the Renaissance which enkindled man with a sense of enthusiasm for everything that belongs to classical antiquity.
The first real English Comedy was "Ralph Rooster Doister" and the first English Tragedy "Gorboduc" are modelled on the comedies of Terence and Plautus, and Seneca respectively. The plan of Gorboduc follows the classical rule of Seneca.
The influence of the Renaissance is mostly found in the dramas of the university wits like - Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nash, Lodge, Kyd and most importantly Marlowe. Among all of them Marlowe is the most vigorous child of Renaissance. He seized upon virtue, a dominant quality in man which drives one to get to the free and full expression of his own thoughts. This he presents Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, and Barabas. In Tamburlaine the spirit of Renaissance makes a sudden dazzling irruption into the popular stage. Doctor Faustus makes use of great myth of the Renaissance, an outlook to knowledge.
Influence on Prose
Among the prose writers during this time the main exponents are Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. More's Utopia show how the English scholars of the time were imbued with the spirit of the classical Renaissance.
More's Utopia was published in 1516 and it is compact with Renaissance spirit. It is written in Latin. If it were written in English More would have been one of the leading figures in English literature. It marks the new turning in the paths of thought better than any book. This book is based upon Plato's Republic .
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