Please state the origin of the Renaissance and its expression in England.
Renaissance was the revival of classical literature and artistic styles in European history. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the early 14th century. In England, the Renaissance was usually thought of as beginning with the accession of the House of Tudor to the throne in 1485. The English Renaissance was largely literary, and achieved its finest expression in the so-called Elizabethan drama which began to excel only in the last decade of the 16th century and reached its height in the first 15 years of the 17th century. Its finest exponents were Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare.
