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Chapter 2 Blanks: The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) between the House of _____ and the House of ______ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___________ took place in England, started by Henry the eighth. The introduction of ____ to England by William Caxton brought classical works within reach of the common multitude. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of feudal relation and the foundation of __________. In Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabeth Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece ______. From the first half of the 16th century, _______ began to develop into a flowering of literature and then England became “a nest of singing birds”. In the Elizabethan Period, ________ is the greatest playwright of England. _______ is the saint of the metaphysical school. In the Elizabethan Period, ______ wrote many excellent essays, such as Of Studies. _______ wrote his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and _____ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of _______’s best plays. Shakespearean Sonnet is made up of three quatrains with different rhymes, followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme is ____. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was _______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. The intellectual energy of the English Renaissance showed itself in the achievement of ________, who is the first English essayist. English Renaissance was an age of ________. “Denmark is a prison”. The hero summarizes his observation of his world into