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Elizabeth is a principal character in the play Elizabeth of England by Ferdinand Bruckner (1930). 20th century American Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright Maxwell Anderson dramatized episodes of Elizabeth's life in two of his most popular plays, Elizabeth the Queen (1930), starring Lynn Fontanne , [ 10 ] and Mary of Scotland (1933), starring ...
The Children of Paul's was the name of a troupe of boy actors in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Along with the Children of the Chapel , they were an important component of the companies of boy players that constituted a distinctive feature of English Renaissance theatre .
The Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), a product of the Newcastle Commission, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales. Subsequently, most dame schools closed since there were now new educational facilities available for children.
People of the Elizabethan era — during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, from 1558 to 1603. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out ...
The diet in England during the Elizabethan era depended largely on social class. Bread was a staple of the Elizabethan diet, and people of different statuses ate bread of different qualities. The upper classes ate fine white bread called manchet , while the poor ate coarse bread made of barley or rye .
Elizabethan courtiers familiar with the language of flowers and the Italian emblem books could have read stories in the flowers the queen carried, the embroidery on her clothes, and the design of her jewels. According to Strong: Fear of the wrong use and perception of the visual image dominates the Elizabethan age.
Hammer, P.E.J. (2003): Elizabeth's Wars: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544–1604 Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-333-91943-2; Haynes, Alan (1987): The White Bear: The Elizabethan Earl of Leicester Peter Owen ISBN 0-7206-0672-1; Haynes, Alan (1992): Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services 1570–1603 Alan Sutton ISBN 0-7509 ...
Burghley House (/ ˈ b ɜːr l i / [1]) is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire.It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.