Elizabethan
Ruff-and-doublet period
Elizabethan refers to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), a period marked by literary flourishing, exploration, and cultural confidence.
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser are Elizabethan writers.
The term evokes elaborate costume, theatrical language, and Renaissance ambition: Elizabethan drama, Elizabethan collar.
An Elizabethan is someone who lived in that era.
Author of stage dramas
- sonnetsFourteen-line rhymed poems
- bardPoet of epics
- Globe TheatreHistoric circular London playhouse
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
iambic pentameter · tragedy · comedy · histories · folio · quarto · Stratford-upon-Avon · blank verse
Pleated historical neckpiece
- farthingaleHooped petticoat framework
- doubletFitted Renaissance jacket
- jerkinSleeveless fitted jacket
- bodiceFitted upper garment
petticoat · corset · stomacher · codpiece · kirtle · slashing · busk · forepart
Tudor allegorical poet
- SidneyPersonal or place name
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- courtly loveChivalric romantic ideal
Marlowe · patronage · pamphlets · chronicles · euphuism · Arcadia · heroic couplet · lyric poetry
Journey by sea
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
- Sir Francis DrakeTudor sea captain, explorer
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
sea dogs · galleon · privateers · Walter Raleigh · Roanoke · Northwest Passage · trading posts · East India Company
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
- Spanish ArmadaDefeated invasion fleet
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
Protestantism · Catholicism · Puritans · heresy · succession · Book of Common Prayer · Golden Age · court intrigue
Epithet for unmarried English sovereign
- Tudor dynastyEnglish royal house
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
throne · reign · sovereign · crown · Westminster · Hampton Court · Whitehall · ladies-in-waiting
playwright
Author of stage dramas
- sonnetsFourteen-line rhymed poems
- bardPoet of epics
- Globe TheatreHistoric circular London playhouse
soliloquy · iambic pentameter · tragedy · comedy · histories · folio · quarto · Stratford-upon-Avon · blank verse · Hamlet
ruff
Pleated historical neckpiece
- farthingaleHooped petticoat framework
- doubletFitted Renaissance jacket
- jerkinSleeveless fitted jacket
bodice · petticoat · corset · stomacher · codpiece · kirtle · slashing · busk · forepart · velvet
Spenser
Tudor allegorical poet
- SidneyPersonal or place name
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
Marlowe · courtly love · patronage · pamphlets · chronicles · euphuism · Arcadia · heroic couplet · lyric poetry · masque
voyage
Journey by sea
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
- Sir Francis DrakeTudor sea captain, explorer
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
circumnavigation · sea dogs · galleon · privateers · Walter Raleigh · Roanoke · Northwest Passage · trading posts · East India Company · navigation
Tudor
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
- Spanish ArmadaDefeated invasion fleet
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
monarchy · Protestantism · Catholicism · Puritans · heresy · succession · Book of Common Prayer · Golden Age · court intrigue
Virgin Queen
Epithet for unmarried English sovereign
- Tudor dynastyEnglish royal house
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
coronation · throne · reign · sovereign · crown · Westminster · Hampton Court · Whitehall · ladies-in-waiting · favourites
stage
Raised performance platform
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- groundlingsStanding theater audience
- balconyRaised exterior platform
actors · costume · props · performance · masque · trapdoor · heavens · pit · galleries · Blackfriars
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, English Civil War, Tudor era, Oliver Cromwell
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- 1500sShakespeare, Spanish Armada, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, Henry VIII
Elizabethancontemporary
Of the present age
modern · present-day · current · postmodern · futuristic
- Elizabethan eraLate sixteenth-century England
- Elizabeth Banks
- Queen ElizabethBritish crown wearer
- Queen Elizabeth IILate British monarch
- Queen Elizabeth ILast Tudor sovereign
- Elizabeth Taylor