Title: Puritans and libertines
Description: The book shows how classical and Italian influences were modulated into the English literary tradition via French authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Marot, Ronsard, Viau, etc. whose writing was deeply affected by the tensions of the Reformation and the religious wars they generated. The French influences are traced in authors such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell. Much knowledge of classical and contemporary literature reached England via French translations, rendered in turn into English by such anthologists as Painter on whom authors like Shakespeare were deeply dependent.
Subjects: Civilization, English literature, French influences, French literatue's influence on the Elizabethans, French literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Reformation in literature, Women, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Great britain, civilization, Reformation
Places: Civilization, England, France, Great Britain, London, Nérac, Paris
People: Daubigné, Marguerite de Navarre, Marot, Marvell, Milton, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Wyatt
Time periods: 1328-1600, 16th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, Reformation period 1500-1700, Renaissance, 1450-1600