Elizabethans
Late sixteenth-century English
Elizabethans are people who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), or things associated with that era.
The term evokes the cultural flourishing of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the English Renaissance: Elizabethan drama, Elizabethan poetry.
As a noun, it typically refers to writers and artists of the period: The Elizabethans transformed English theater.
Extended journeys by sea
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
- DrakeAdult male duck
- RaleighNorth Carolina capital
- ArmadaNamed naval force
Hawkins · seafaring · galleons · privateers · Roanoke · Virginia · colonization · circumnavigation
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- groundlingsStanding theater audience
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
tragedy · comedy · Marlowe · troupes · masque · players · Blackfriars · staging
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- alchemyMystical metal transformation
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- humoursFour bodily fluids
- natural philosophyHistorical term for science
classical learning · rhetoric · logic · Bacon · cosmology · herbalism · anatomy · Neoplatonism
Seeking another's romantic favor
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
- pavaneMeasured ceremonial court dance
- virginalUnsullied or inexperienced
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
bear-baiting · jousting · hawking · feasting · revels · tournaments · heraldry · tapestry
English royal dynasty
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- gentryHighborn but not noble
yeomen · commoners · merchants · guilds · apprentices · servants · hierarchy · patronage
Fourteen-line metered poem
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- folioSingle-fold page format
- quartoFour-leaf printing format
- verseMetered poetic passage
iambic · pentameter · Spenser · Sidney · prose · pamphlet · chronicle · epigram
Church of England members
- ProtestantsPost-Reformation Christian denominations
- CatholicsChristians following Rome
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
- Church of EnglandBritain's state religion
vestments · Book of Common Prayer · excommunication · martyrs · Reformation · conformity · heresy · bishops
voyages
Extended journeys by sea
Hawkins · Armada · seafaring · galleons · privateers · Roanoke · Virginia · colonization · circumnavigation · navigation
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- groundlingsStanding theater audience
soliloquy · tragedy · comedy · Marlowe · troupes · masque · players · Blackfriars · staging · repertory
humanism
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- alchemyMystical metal transformation
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- humoursFour bodily fluids
natural philosophy · classical learning · rhetoric · logic · Bacon · cosmology · herbalism · anatomy · Neoplatonism · occult
courtship
Seeking another's romantic favor
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
- pavaneMeasured ceremonial court dance
- virginalUnsullied or inexperienced
lute · bear-baiting · jousting · hawking · feasting · revels · tournaments · heraldry · tapestry · embroidery
Tudors
English royal dynasty
gentry · yeomen · commoners · merchants · guilds · apprentices · servants · hierarchy · patronage · succession
sonnet
Fourteen-line metered poem
verse · iambic · pentameter · Spenser · Sidney · prose · pamphlet · chronicle · epigram · pastoral
Anglicans
Church of England members
- ProtestantsPost-Reformation Christian denominations
- CatholicsChristians following Rome
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
Church of England · vestments · Book of Common Prayer · excommunication · martyrs · Reformation · conformity · heresy · bishops · clergy
ElizabethansVictorians
British people, 1837-1901
moderns · Anglo-Saxons · Romans · ancients · contemporaries
ElizabethansVictorians
British people, 1837-1901
Puritans · moderns · postmodernists · medievals · digital natives
- Elizabethan eraLate sixteenth-century England
- Elizabethan EnglandBritain under the first Elizabeth
- Elizabethan periodLate 1500s English reign
- Elizabethan LondonLate 1500s English capital
- Elizabethan English16th-century British dialect
- Elizabethan styleLate 1500s English aesthetic