elizabethan
Bard's historical period
Elizabethan refers to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), a period marked by cultural flourishing, theatrical innovation, and colonial expansion.
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser were Elizabethan writers.
The term describes the era's distinctive style in literature, architecture, and dress: an Elizabethan collar, Elizabethan drama.
Sometimes used loosely for anything evoking Tudor England's grandeur.
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- groundlingsStanding theater audience
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
iambic · Marlowe · tragedy · comedy · history · Hamlet · Macbeth · masque
Pleated historical neckpiece
- doubletFitted Renaissance jacket
- hoseFlexible fluid conduit
- farthingaleHooped petticoat framework
- codpieceOrnamental groin covering
brocade · velvet · pearl · corset · bodice · slashing · puffed · stomacher
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- Virgin QueenEpithet for unmarried English sovereign
- successionFollowing in order
- LeicesterEast Midlands county seat
Essex · Dudley · coronation · reign · Protestant · excommunication · progresses · courtier
Fourteen-line metered poem
- SpenserTudor allegorical poet
- SidneyPersonal or place name
- verseMetered poetic passage
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
Arcadia · courtly · rhetoric · patronage · quatrain · couplet · blazon · Petrarchan
Named naval force
- DrakeAdult male duck
- RaleighNorth Carolina capital
- privateerAuthorized civilian warship
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
circumnavigation · seafaring · exploration · colonization · Hawkins · Virginia · Roanoke · Golden Hind
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- groundlingsStanding theater audience
soliloquy · iambic · Marlowe · tragedy · comedy · history · Hamlet · Macbeth · masque · verse
ruff
Pleated historical neckpiece
- doubletFitted Renaissance jacket
- hoseFlexible fluid conduit
- farthingaleHooped petticoat framework
codpiece · brocade · velvet · pearl · corset · bodice · slashing · puffed · stomacher · lace
Tudor
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- Virgin QueenEpithet for unmarried English sovereign
- successionFollowing in order
Leicester · Essex · Dudley · coronation · reign · Protestant · excommunication · progresses · courtier · favor
sonnet
Fourteen-line metered poem
pastoral · Arcadia · courtly · rhetoric · patronage · quatrain · couplet · blazon · Petrarchan · allegory
Armada
Named naval force
galleon · circumnavigation · seafaring · exploration · colonization · Hawkins · Virginia · Roanoke · Golden Hind · Spanish
manor
Landed aristocratic residence
- timberWood for construction
- half-timberedConstruction with visible framework
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
mullioned · plasterwork · chimney · oriel · symmetry · prodigy · gable · heraldic · paneling · great hall
elizabethanVictorian
Of a prim era
modern · contemporary · 21st-century · present-day · medieval
- Elizabethan eraLate sixteenth-century England
- Elizabeth Banks
- Queen ElizabethBritish crown wearer
- Queen Elizabeth IILate British monarch
- Queen Elizabeth ILast Tudor sovereign
- Elizabeth Taylor