Renaissance
tragedy and comedy.
Native English drama, which had existed at least since medieval times, was the wellspring
of Elizabethan drama. Although Classical drama had been known earlier, its initial
influence came in the 1560s, with the translation of Latin drama, especially the revenge
tragedies of Seneca and the comedies of Plautus and Terence.
13. How did the Puritans influence life and culture?
As Puritan influence grew in England, more and more complaints were made about the
ungodliness of the theatres, and they were occasionally closed. The Puritan influence that
forced the occasional closing of the theaters was symptomatic of what was to come. The
increasing strength of the predominantly Puritan middle class in the House of Commons
during the reign of James I and his son Charles I, made confrontation inevitable. A civil
war broke out in 1642 between Royalists and Roundheads (puritans). With the outbreak
of the Puritan revolution, literature polarized
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