Early Modern English language
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Early Modern English language was a language used in the British Isles from approximately 1500ce to the late 1600s. It followed Middle English and came before Modern English.
Early Modern English maintained the West Germanic grammar of Middle English while including extensive Latin and French vocabulary, due to the Renaissance cementing earlier Norman influences. Spoken Early Modern English was shaped heavily by the Great Vowel Shift, while its written form was heavily shaped by the rise of English nationalism and William Caxton's efforts to standardize the language through printing texts like The Canterbury Tales.
The most famous works of Early Modern English are the works of William Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and the texts of William Cecil, King James I, and Francis Bacon.