The Renaissance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England saw a great dramatic revival of the old Greek and Roman classics and a new interest in a native British drama. English playwrights seized the opportunity to combine the best of these two drama forms to create the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the best in English literature and possibly in the world (Schultz 88). Chief among these playwrights was William Shakespeare, the most respected playwright of all time. The theater of this period was quite popular. Though the actors were still all men, the masks had disappeared; and costumes, props, and sets had taken their place (McCredie 21). During the Renaissance, the theater began to come of age ("Renaissance" 4). Although drama had its ups and downs in the years that followed, it was at last firmly established as an acceptable and valuable form of literature.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.