loadingThe English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. As in most of the rest of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. The beginning of the English Renaissance is often takento be 1485, when the Battle of Bosworth ended the Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the Tudor Dynasty. Renaissance style and ideas, however, were slow to penetrate England, and the Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.
英国文艺复兴时期是第十五年代末到第十七年代初的英国的文化艺术运动。它与泛欧洲复兴有关，通常被认为是在第十四世纪末在意大利开始的。在欧洲北部的大部分地区，直到一个多世纪以后英国才看到一点他们的发展。英国文艺复兴的开始往往是1485年，当博斯沃思战役结束了玫瑰战争，开创了都铎王朝。但是，文艺复兴时期的风格和思想慢慢渗透英国，在第十六世纪下半叶伊丽莎白时代通常被认为是英国文艺复兴盛行时期。
The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier. In contrast, the English Renaissance can only truly be said to begin, shakily, in the 1520s, and it continued until perhaps 1620.
英国文艺复兴不同于意大利文艺复兴时期的几种方式。英国文艺复兴时期的主要艺术形式是文学和音乐。英国文艺复兴时期的视觉艺术远比意大利文艺复兴时期的视觉艺术要少得多。英国文艺复兴的时期开始比意大利晚的多，意大利在16世纪50年代成为矫饰主义和巴洛克的年代或者更早。相比之下，英国文艺复兴时期才真正说是动摇地开始在16世纪20年代，它一直持续到大约1620年。
England had a strong tradition of literature in the English vernacular, which gradually increased as English use of the printing press became common by the mid 16th century.By the time of Elizabethan literature, a vigorous literary culture in both drama and poetry included poets such as Edmund Spenser, whose verse epic. The Faerie Queene had a strong influence on English literature but was eventually overshadowed by the lyrics of William Shakespeare, Thomas Wyatt and others. Typically, the works of these playwrights and poets circulated in manuscript form for some time before they were published, and above all the plays of English Renaissance theatre were the outstanding legacy of the period. The works of this period are also affected by Henry VIII's declaration of independence from the Catholic Church and technological advances in sailing and cartography, which are reflected in the generally nonreligious themes and various shipwreck adventures of Shakespeare.
在英语白话中英国有一个强大的文学传统，作为英语使用印刷机成为常见的第十六世纪中叶这逐渐增加。在伊丽莎白文学时期，在轰轰烈烈的文学文化中，戏剧和诗歌包括诗人如埃德蒙·斯宾塞及他的诗史。The Faerie Queene对英语文学的强烈影响而最终被威廉·莎士比亚，Thomas Wyatt和其他人的歌词所掩盖。
通常，这些剧作家和诗人以手抄本流传一段时间之前，他们发表的作品，和上面的英国文艺复兴的戏剧是这一时期的优秀遗产。这一时期的作品也都是由天主教堂和航海和制图技术的进步独立宣言亨利八世的影响，主要体现在一般的非宗教性的主题和莎士比亚的各种海难历险记。
The English theatre scene, which performed both for the court and nobility in private performances, and a very wide public in the theatres, was the most crowded in Europe, with a host of other playwrights as well as the giant figures of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Elizabeth herself was a product of Renaissance humanism trained by Roger Ascham, and wrote occasional poems such as On Monsieur's Departure at critical moments of her life. Philosophers and intellectuals included Thomas More and Francis Bacon. All the 16th century Tudor monarchs were highly educated, as was much of the nobility, and Italian literature had a considerable following, providing the sources for many of Shakespeare's plays. English thought advanced towards modern science with the Baconian Method, a forerunner of the Scientific Method. For example, the language of the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, and at the end of the period the Authorised Version (\James Version\to Americans) of the Bible (1611)) had enduring impacts on the English consciousness.
英语戏剧舞台，既表现在私人演出宫廷和贵族，并在剧院非常广泛的公众，在欧洲是最拥挤的，与其他剧作家以及克里斯托弗·马洛的大人物，莎士比亚和本·琼森一样。伊丽莎白是文艺复兴时期人文主义被Roger Ascham训练的产品，写应景诗如Monsieur的离开在她人生的关键时刻。哲学家和知识分子包括托马斯和弗朗西斯·培根。所有第十六个世纪都铎王朝的君主是受过高等教育的，因为大部分是贵族，并且当时意大利文学有相当多的追随者，为许多莎士比亚的戏剧提供来源。英语思维用培根法走向现代科学，这是一种科学方法的先驱。例如，《共同祈祷书》的语言，第一次出版于1549，并在该时期结束的授权版本（“国王杰姆斯版”圣经（1611））对英国意识有持久的影响。