Poetry, Religion and Drama during Renaissance and Reformation: Impact on the Modern Age

Abstract

In the days of Renaissance and Reformation the original dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe regarded pride as a virtue, to them pride is not a vice. It creates hope and faith in the minds of man. This hope and faith form the main substance of religion- a very significant cause, promoted by the movement of the Reformation. So emotional exuberance and imaginative extravagant have been balanced by some order of structure provided by the Reformation. This concept is exemplified in the dramas written in Tudor times. Here the dramas signify not only the poetic dramas but also dramas written in verse. In the dramatic presentation of the theatre of the mind, where being is everything, poetry plays the key role but in order to show the dramatic action in the external world the dramatist has taken  recourse to verse drama which really presents the theme of the drama and its action in a very succinct manner. This paper will be a study of the impact of poetry, religion and drama of the Renaissance period upon the Modern age.