The Literary Icons of English Renaissance and their Linguistic Influence upon later Culture: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton

Abstract

Even though classical antiquity shines as the cultural phenomenon exerting a tremendous influence upon next centuries of art, philosophy or literature, the English Renaissance – a cultural and artistic movement dating from the late 15th to the middle 17th century – emerges as comparably influential. Among major literary figures in this period, three names appear as exceptionally prolific in swaying a lasting influence upon a literary and cultural domain. Christopher Marlowe (1564–93), William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and John Milton (1608–74) are those figures whose literary achievements have invariably been admired worldwide.