ENG 2020 English II: Renaissance Literature
In an age of discovery, Renaissance writers explored the rewards and dangers of reaching into new areas of experience, of questioning the accepted social and moral order, of concentrating on their desires instead of God's. A selection of masterpieces by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Donne, Milton and others reveals their insight, imagination and power over language as well as the possibilities and problems considered by sixteenth and seventeenth century writers.
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