Support for the ArtsIn addition to artists’ earnings, support for the arts derives from the Government, chiefly through the arts Council and business and private philanthropic sources.Literature. The elaboration of an expressly English literature began in the medieval period with Geoffrey Chaucer and continued into the Renaissance and then into the Restoration with William Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Dryden. During those periods, drama and poetry were the major literary forms, with popular literature shading into song, cartoons, and storytelling.
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