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Sir Walter Raleigh
675 wordsRenaissance Man The Renaissance Man, Sir Walter Raleigh, is acclaimed to be one of the greatest poets, explorers, and soldiers during the Renaissance era. Raleigh was born in 1554 in Hayes Burton, Devonshire, England to Walter Raleigh of F ardell and Katherine Gilbert (Raleigh, Internet). Raleigh fought in the Wars of the Religion in France on the French Protestant side in about 1569. Afterwards, Raleigh attended both Oriel College at Oxford and Middle Temple Law College at London but did not fi...
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Queen Elizabeth II
1,756 wordsA QUEEN ADORED: ENGLAND'S ELIZABETH II Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Pakenham, was born in London England in 1906. She attended Lady Margaret Hall and Oxford University where she studied classical history and philosophy. She later married Oxford professor and politician, the seventh Earl of Longford in 1931, with whom she had eight children. She worked as a tutor from 1930-36 in the Worker's Educational Association, and was a member of the Paddington and St. Pom cras Rent Tribunal from 1946-51...
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England's Protestant Boys
1,156 wordsShekar Kapur did an outstanding job bringing the history of Elizabeth, one of England's greatest monarchs, to the screen in a modern way. Yet to understand Elizabeth's rise to power, one must understand the reign of her family. Her father, Henry V, at the time a Catholic, was famous not only for his reign but also for marrying six wives. While married to his first wife, Catherine, only one of their seven children survived, Mary Tudor. Wanting to produce a male heir and for the sake of convenienc...
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Hastings And Queen Elizabeth
652 wordsIn an air-conditioned auditorium with really good acoustics, the sets and costumes of the Elizabethan time, a swift, broad, loud, highly physical production would perform so well that any brutal critic would have to stand in ovation. There would be at least 100 attendees in the theatre. Each of them would be able to attest to the inexperienced group that would speak from their hearts as they bring life to the characters despite the fact that this would be their first performance. In the followin...
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Queen Elizabeth
915 wordsQueen Elizabeth I was actually born named Elizabeth Tudor on September 7, 1533. She was born at Greenwich Palace and was the daughter of Henry V and his second wife (after England's split from the Catholic Church), Anne Boleyn. She was crowned Queen of England on January 14, 1559 and reigned for the next 44 years and 4 months. She was of average height, had red hair and brown eyes. Apparently she had a very pleasant smile, even with her black teeth. She is remembered by such names as the Virgin ...
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Elizabeth And The English
2,811 wordsElizabeth was born September 7, 1533 and died on March 24, 1603. She was the monarch of England from 1558 to her death. In her lifetime she made herself a powerful image of female authority, regal magnificence and national pride. This image has endured down to the present day. Elizabeth both created her image through embellishment and through the concrete policies that she urged her nation to follow. The latter half of the 16th century in England is called the Elizabethan Age, and perhaps this i...
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Elizabethan Fashion The Elizabethan Era
1,894 wordsElizabethan Fashion The Elizabethan Era was a time that reflect the mood and values of the 16th century though the use of fashion. It was a period in which a lot of originality and creativity was evident was used to create new styles of dress (Black & Garland 16). The Fashion in Elizabethan England at this time reflected the values and Ideals of the era. It was an Era that based everything on the Great Chain Of Being; which was a concept that everyone had a position in the social standings of so...
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Elizabeth's Archrival Mary Of Guise
1,099 wordsElizabeth Elizabeth I: Cate Blanchett Sir Francis Walsingham: Geoffrey Rush Duke of Norfolk: Christopher Eccleston Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Joseph Fiennes Sir William Cecil: Richard Attenborough Mary of Guise: Fanny ArdantThe Pope: John Gielgud Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Written by Michael Hirst. Running time: 124 minutes. Rated R (for violence and sexuality). BY ROGER EBERT The England of the first Elizabeth is a dark and sensuous place; the court lives intimately with treachery, and c...
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Elizabeth's Treatment Of Catholics
2,248 wordsThe reformation of England had been a long drawn out affair dating back to King Henry V's Act of Supremacy in 1534. By the accession of Elizabeth in 1558, many historians believe that she inherited a country, which was still predominantly Catholic in belief. Although people of South Eastern England were likely to be influenced by the peoples of Europe, who were experiencing reforms, Doran (1994) suggests that the number of Protestants accounted for just 14 per cent of the population of Sussex an...
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Edmund Spensers Fairy Queen Elizabeth
2,717 wordsEdmund Spencer was born in 1552 to a poor family. He went to Cambridge and received his Masters Degree in 1576. By 1578, he was serving as secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. The landscape there is frequently mentioned in The Shepherdess Calendar. The Shepherdess Calendar served as propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queens proposed marriage with Duc d Alen con. Spencer and his friends, Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, and Funke Grenville formed a literary group called the Areopagus. Spe...
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Elizabethan Theaters And Elizabethan Theater Companies
2,437 wordsQueen Elizabeth came to be known as one of the greatest rulers of the English empire. Under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a more efficient government was created. The church was unified, the English empire was expanded, and language, literature, and theater flourished to a greatness that would be impossible for almost any other period of English history, or any other European empire, for that matter, to match. Although there was a great rise in literature, it was theater that catapulted to gre...
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Later Sidney
517 wordsThe Life of Sir Phillip Sidney Sir Phillip Sidney was born on November 30, 1554, at Pens hurst, Kent. He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney, thrice Lord Deputy (governor) of Ireland, and nephew of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. He was named after his godfather, Phillip II of Spain. He entered Shrewsbury school in 1564, at the age of ten, on the same day as Funke Greville, who became his friend and later, his biographer. After attending Christ Church, Oxford, he left without taking a degre...
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Charge Of Elizabeth After Henry's Death
1,244 wordsOn September 7, 1533 Elizabeth was born on the outskirts of London, England. The child's father was King Henry V, mistakenly known as Bluff King Hal. The child's mother was Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry's eight wives. Henry's first wife was Catherine of Aragon. She had one surviving child, which she named Mary. Henry wanted a male heir to the throne, so he pleaded with the pope to annul the marriage. Because the pope refused, Henry left the Roman Catholic Church and made himself the head...
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Queen Elizabeth
3,103 wordsEssay Gaetano Donizetti was a prolific writer of operas. His subjects were taken from many sources but throughout his life he returned again and again to stories drawn from the British royal family. British Kings and Queens are used in various Donizetti opera's: Elizabeth I, makes her first appearance in Il Castello di Kenilworth in 1829. Henry II is the tenor in Rosamond a d'Inghilterra of 1834 and Edward with Queen Isabella make an appearance in L'Aassedio di Calais of 1830. There are three op...
