Based on your understanding of the transition between the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, what factors do you think most encouraged the incredible quantity and quality of playwrights writing during the time of Elizabeth I and James II?

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A major factor in the growth of theatre was a more secular culture following the Protestant Reformation. Also, the theatre grew as more men attended universities, studying the Greek and Roman playwrights. Students moved from staging private performances of classical plays to writing new plays of their own.