Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature


manufacturing paper made possible the rapid spread of knowledge



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M Bakoeva English Literature 2010

manufacturing paper made possible the rapid spread of knowledge.


In 1476, during the Wars o f the Roses, William Caxton set up
the first printing press in London. Before that time, books and
other literary works were slowly and laboriously copied by hand.
Printing made it possible to produce far more books at lo wer costs.
By 1640 Caxton’s and other presses had printed more than 216,000
different works and editions. It is estimated that by 1 530 more
than half the population o f England was literate. Learning at that
time flourished not only at Oxford and Cambridge, but at the lower
educational levels too.
At that period new types o f literature were imported from the
European continent. Chief among these were the sonnet, imported
by Wyatt and Surrey from Italy, where it had been perfected'by
Francis Petrarch; and the essay, imported by Sir Francis Bacon
from France. Other verse forms were also borrowed from Italian
and French. The native drama continued to develop and gain
popularity.
The H eight o f the Renaissance
Under the reign o f Elizabeth I ( 1558-1603), order was; restored,
and England entered upon her most glorious age. Elizabeth was
only twenty-five when she assumed the throne, never married,
and ruled wisely and well for forty-five years.
Interested in education, Queen Elizabeth established one
hundred free grammar schools in all parts o f the counlry. These
schools were open to both sexes o f all ranks. In 1579, Gresham
College was founded in London to cater to the needs o f t:ie middle
class. Unlike the classical curriculum offered by Oxford and
Cambridge, its curriculum included law, medicine and other

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