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The long period covered in this chapter takes us from the reign of the Tudor* monarch, King Henry VII (died 1509 — succeeded by Henry VIII), to the execution by Parliament of the Stuart* King Charles I in 1649. It is a period which establishes the foundations of the modern United Kingdom, and includes The (English) Reformation*, The (English) Renaissance*, the Elizabethan* period (with its great flowering of a national literature), the first part of the Stuart* reign [see Chapter 2 for its continuation after 1660], the Jacobean* and Caroline* periods, and The English Civil War*.
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Widdowson, P. (2004). 1500–1649. In: The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500–2000. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-00099-5_1
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