[edit] Elizabethan - Tragicomedy
The mode of most "absurdist" plays is tragicomedy.[10][11] As Nell says in Endgame, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness ... it's the most comical thing in the world".
Elizabethan and early Stuart drama
Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose
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In the Elizabethan period, the English school was represented by painters of miniature portraits, a speciality which remained in fashion for three centuries.
Elizabethan
A style of art associated with the era of Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558-1603). Portraiture was an important Elizabethan painting genre, eminent portait artists being Nicholas Hilliard, Marcus Gheeraerts.
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"It is this which makes the Elizabethan drama so different from the Greek. It is this again which already separates the works of Duccio and Giotto from the plastic arts of Antiquity.
The lengthy Elizabethan poem concerns a Christian soldier’s search for Truth. Early in his quest, the knight encounters two lovely personifications of virtue.
That is the same as someone in Elizabethan England saying that the English language had been 'done' by Chaucer.
During the English Renaissance (which overlapped with the Elizabethan era) writers such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe composed works of lasting influence.
Mannerism is not easily pigeonholed; it scarcely affected the popular arts, and no definitions survived much examination, in the views of English art historians, partly perhaps because they already had sufficient local categories: "Elizabethan drama, ...
 See also: Classic, Roman, School, Painting, Renaissance
  
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