Elizabethan inn-yards were one of the first places for English theatre, where people wrote verse to music, lodged and entertained. These inn-yards soon were transformed into full-blown theatre houses and thus, the theater was introduced during the Elizabethan era. In one of these theaters - the Globe Theatre of London, most famous playwrights of all time created their works - Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and of course William Shakespeare, who is known as the world's pre-eminent playwright
the time, coupled with some forms of education, allowed their creativity to flourish. An age that started out with literature influencing history then ended with a return of the favour. The Romantic age was an age of poetry, and just as the Elizabethan Age prior to this, the course of history was somehow perfect for the extensive development of yet another branch of literature. The incredibly beautiful imagery and aesthetic quality of romantic poetry finds parallel nowhere else in English
when each and every facet of society was undergoing tremendous changes, and these changes were echoed in literature as well. The Renaissance movement began in Italy during the 14th century and in the following decades, the spirit of the Renaissance crossed the Italian boundaries and spread all across Europe. During the Elizabethan era, English literature was largely influenced by the maelstrom of Renaissance – indeed, it is not an exaggeration to say that writers such as William Shakespeare, Edmund
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin