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Elizabethan literature is considered one of the "most splendid" in the history of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet , the Spenserian stanza , and dramatic blank verse , as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets , and the first English novels.
1 February – Parliament's Putting away of Books and Images Act 1549 receives royal assent, encouraging iconoclasm. [1] 24 March – England and France sign the Treaty of Boulogne; England withdraws from Boulogne in France and returns territorial gains in Scotland. [2] The value of the angel is raised from eight to ten shillings.
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor.
Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – late 1604) [1] was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture [1] during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement is the name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The settlement, implemented from 1559 to 1563, marked the end of the English Reformation .
[10] 21 July – Thomas Howard is created the 1st Earl of Suffolk. [17] 25 July – Coronation of James I as King of England in Westminster Abbey. [10] November–December – The court is in residence at Wilton House in Wiltshire due to plague in London. 17 November – Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of ...
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Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick , it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson , an exponent of the Renaissance style .