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How Does Shakespeare Present A Change In The Elizabethan Era

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In the earlier ages, many authors in the Elizabethan period followed the tradition of the famous poet Petrarch who used to describe a mistress as an idealized woman, a beauty a lot of women cannot be. The description of a mistress was in Petrarch’s love poems the same. A human being with no blemish was presented to the reader. At the end of the Elizabethan Age, the poems about a mistress changed. William Shakespeare, a famous actor and writer, began to write various types of plays and sonnets. Different from the other authors, Shakespeare switched the gender he wanted to praise. For a long time, the readers at this time were used to read love poems about a mistress. Nevertheless Shakespeare rather chose to honour a man than a woman. About 26
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