which period did shakespeare writing is marked by calm and serenity.
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The England of William Shakespeare's time was one marked by changes in social, political, religious, philosophical, and artistic perceptions. This period is usually referred to as The Renaissance (1485-1660)during which innumerable changes in the culture of England became manifest. In the beginning, many scholars point to the end of the middle ages as the beginning of the Renaissance. This is often tied to the deposing of King Richard III who was killed in battle and dropped unceremoniously into an unmarked grave, naked and unmourned. This allowed the accession to the throne of the long reigning House of Tudor, beginning with Henry VII (1485-1509). With the rise of the Tudor monarchs a new era was begun. The cultural changes of the Renaissance had been an ongoing process in Europe for a hundred years before, most notably in Italy and France.
At the core of this change was the idea of "renewal" or "rebirth" - the meaning of the word renaissance. Among those things reborn was the interest in the learning from the classical ages, primarily Greek and Roman culture. In the Middle Ages, such interests were actively repressed by a dominating church and its partner the Feudal System. Both of these kept the majority of people in England tied to the values of the church and the control of the feudal lords for whom they worked. Literacy was almost non-existent among the masses, and any attempt to educate people other than for work in the church or government was actively and brutally discouraged. After the Renaissance is allowed to expand into England, a passion for literacy, learning, and creativity emerged. The works of the ancients of the Classical Period were gathered up from the monasteries and studied widely. The increase in the interest in the ideals of the Romans and Greeks created a new hunger for a philosophical perspective the people of England could embrace. That philosophy was humanism, the belief system which advocated the improvement of the human condition based on the pursuit of virtues drawn from the teachings of the ancient philosophers such as Cicero. Humanism was not an attempt to discredit Christianity; rather, the humanists pursued the knowledge of the classics in order to bring them into harmony with the teachings of the church. Contrary to the perception of many, the Renaissance actually emerged from the attempts of the Roman Catholic Church, especially in Italy to discover and add to scholarship to develop this harmonic relationship between what was secular and what was religious