Restoration literature

 Restoration literature includes both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high spirited sexual comedy of The Countr...

Caroline and Cromwellian literature

 The turbulent years of the mid-17th century, during the reign of Charles I and the subsequent Commonwealth and Protectorate, saw a flouri...

Jacobean literature period

 After Shakespeare's death, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson was the leading literary figure of the Jacobean era (The reign of James I...

English early modern period

Elizabethan Era  The Elizabethan era saw a great flourishing of literature, especially in the field of drama. The Italian Renaissance had...

English literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily ...