The article reveals the main factors defining the formation of the English prose fiction in the era of Elizabeth I. Analyzing linguistic exuberance and generic experiments as the main feature of the genesis of prose narrative in Elizabethan England the author comes to the conclusion that the Renaissance artistic consciousness laid the foundations of the development of prose in the literary discourse.
the Renaissanse, English prose fiction, genre, style, rhetoric
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