This was a great gain for the Purit The ordinary citizen sympathized increasingly with Puritans with their emphasis on thrift and economy, and the purity of the home. Criticism of the church and the court increasingly became more vocal and wide spread and resulted untie in the civil war and the beheading of Charles I.
The critical temper of the age is reflected in its literature- poetry, prose and drama. The times were out of joint and pessimism and satire are the natural result of the dissatisfaction with the existing order. The melancholy pose of the 1590’s and the early years of the 17th century is not a mere affectation: it is an expression of the inner gloom and frustration of the age. It is also seen in the morbid pre-occupation of the writers of the age with the themes of decay, dissolution, disease, sickness and death.