Editing Renaissance (section)

===England===
{{main|English Renaissance}}
[[File:Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare.jpg|thumb|upright|"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!" – from [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'']]
The [[Elizabethan era]] in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance. Many scholars see its beginnings in the early 16th century during the reign of [[Henry VIII]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=16 January 2024 |title=The English Renaissance |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/154826/an-introduction-to-the-english-renaissance |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref>

The English Renaissance is different from the [[Italian Renaissance]] in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were [[literature]] and [[music]], which had a rich flowering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Best |first=Michael |title=Art in England: Life and Times - Internet Shakespeare Editions |url=https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/art/england.html |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=internetshakespeare.uvic.ca}}</ref> [[Visual arts]] in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English Renaissance period in art began far later than the Italian, which had moved into [[Mannerism]] by the 1530s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art in Renaissance England |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0512.xml |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=obo |language=en}}</ref>

In literature the later part of the 16th century saw the flowering of [[Elizabethan literature]], with poetry heavily influenced by [[Italian Renaissance literature]] but [[Elizabethan theatre]] a distinctive native style. Writers include [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), [[Christopher Marlowe]] (1564–1593), [[Edmund Spenser]] (1552–1599), Sir [[Thomas More]] (1478–1535), and Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (1554–1586). [[English Renaissance music]] competed with that in Europe with composers such as [[Thomas Tallis]] (1505–1585), [[John Taverner]] (1490–1545), and [[William Byrd]] (1540–1623). [[Elizabethan architecture]] produced the large [[prodigy house]]s of courtiers, and in the next century [[Inigo Jones]] (1573–1652), who introduced [[Palladian architecture]] to England.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of Architecture in Britain |url=https://cdn.southampton.ac.uk/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/UsefulDownloads_Download/1358E11C695C4670BC764FA5CAB2EEFE/Architecture%20of%20London%20Preparatory%20Materials.pdf |publisher=[[University of Southampton]]}}</ref>

Elsewhere, Sir [[Francis Bacon]] (1561–1626) was the pioneer of modern scientific thought, and is commonly regarded as one of the founders of the [[Scientific Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Scientific Revolution |url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Scientific-Revolution/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Historic UK |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Klein |first=Jürgen |title=Francis Bacon |date=2012 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/francis-bacon/ |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |access-date=17 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022212025/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/francis-bacon/ |url-status=live |edition=Winter 2016 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |archive-date=22 October 2019 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref>