LITERATURE

Elizabethan Age Introduction:            Elizabethan Age is generally regarded as the greatest Age in the History of English Literature. W.J.Long writes about this period. "After the reigns, if Edward, and Mary, with defeat and humiliation abroad and presentations and rebellion at home, the occasion of popular sovereign was like the sunrise after a long night."     In the words of Milton we suddenly see England. "A Nobel and pleasant nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks." The Elizabethan Age is rightly called the 'Golden Age' in the History of England. England made astonishing progress in all fields of National Life with the accession of Queen Elizabeth on the throne of England in 1558 the whole country blossomed like a flower. In England the Age of Queen Elizabeth is also known as the Age of 'Renaissance', Denotes its broadest sense and the gradual enlighten of human mind after the d