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Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages 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 ...
John Davis (c. 1550 – 29 December 1605) was one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I of England.He led several voyages to discover the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies.
The cultural achievements of the Elizabethan era have long attracted scholars, and since the 1960s they have conducted intensive research on the social history of England. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] Main subjects within Tudor social history includes courtship and marriage , the food they consumed and the clothes they wore . [ 80 ]
English achievements in exploration were noteworthy in the Elizabethan era. Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic . The first attempt at English settlement of the eastern seaboard of North America occurred in this era—the abortive colony at Roanoke Island in 1587.
Broadcast 13 November 2008 on BBC Four [11] Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey (3x60m, 2009) In Search of England’s Green and Pleasant Land: East (30m, 2009) Broadcast 5 June 2009 on BBC Four; Munro: Mountain Man (60m, 2009) Broadcast 20 September on BBC Four; TOWN with Nicholas Crane (4x60m, 2011 and 4x60m, 2013)
The Poor Relief Act 1601 [1] (43 Eliz. 1.c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, popularly known as the Elizabethan Poor Law, the "43rd Elizabeth", [a] or the "Old Poor Law", [b] was passed in 1601 and created a poor law system for England and Wales.
New Albion, also known as Nova Albion (in reference to an archaic name for Britain), was the name of the continental area north of Mexico claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England when he landed on the North American west coast in 1579.
Martin Frobisher was probably born in 1535 or 1536, the son of merchant Bernard Frobisher of Altofts, Yorkshire, and Margaret York of Gouthwaite. [4] He was the third of five children when his father died prematurely in 1542.