What is the French influence over English literature? The French influence is most marked in the drama. Rimed couplets instead of blank verse, the unities, a more regular construction, and the presentation rather than individual these were some of the French requirements which the English dramatists had more or less in mind. The comedies are coarse in language and their view of the relations between men and women is immoral and dishonest. What is the main theme of Sonnet 18? This
