Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Elizabethan World Picture (Chatto & Windus 1943, Penguin 1963) Shakespeare's History Plays (1944) Milton (1946) The Miltonic Setting: Past and Present (1947) Poetry and Its Background: Illustrated by Five Poems 1470–1870 (1948) Shakespeare's Problem Plays (1949) Studies in Milton (1951) The English Renaissance, Fact or Fiction? (1952)
A version in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which had been cut down at both sides leaving just a portrait of the queen, was also formerly attributed to Gower. A third version, owned by the Tyrwhitt-Drake family, may have been commissioned by Sir Francis Drake. Scholars agree that this version is by a different hand, noting distinctive ...
Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction with William and Isaac Jaggard, of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623.
The authorized worship of the Elizabethan church could be broken up into three categories: the first was the Litany and approved versions of the Elizabethan prayer book, the second included the 1559 Elizabethan primer and other authorized private devotionals, and the third being the compilations of occasionally authorized prayers that for ...
A variant version in which the prince is accompanied by Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, is in the Royal Collection, U.K., dated c. 1605 Robert Peake the Elder ( c. 1551 –1619) was an English painter active in the later part of Elizabeth I's reign and for most of the reign of James I . [ 1 ]
Philip Henslowe [1] (c. 1550 – 6 January 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his diary, a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance London.
It was left to "the actor-playwrights who, rising from very humble beginnings, but possessing in their fellow Shakespeare a champion unparalleled in ancient and modern times, borrowed the improvements of the university wits, added their own stage knowledge, and with Shakespeare's aid achieved the master drama of the world."
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.