Elizabethan period
Tudor England's zenith
The Elizabethan period is the era of English history during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
It marks a cultural flowering—Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser wrote during this time, and English naval power expanded.
Elizabethan theater, Elizabethan architecture, and Elizabethan literature describe works from or styled after this age.
The term evokes Renaissance splendor, elaborate dress, and theatrical innovation.
- Sir Francis DrakeTudor sea captain, explorer
- Virgin QueenEpithet for unmarried English sovereign
- poor lawsLegislation for destitute aid
- sea dogsExperienced veteran mariners
- masqueCourtly theatrical entertainment
William Shakespeare · Francis Bacon · Sir Walter Raleigh · Golden Age · Spanish Armada · Globe Theatre · Copernican theory · Christopher Marlowe · Protestant Reformation · sonnet · blank verse · bear baiting · madrigal · natural philosophy · Tudor dynasty · courtly manners · court intrigue · Mary, Queen of Scots
Elizabethan periodDark Ages
Post-Roman European decline
medieval period · Middle Ages · Victorian era · modern era · Industrial Revolution
Elizabethan periodWars of the Roses
Plantagenet succession conflict
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