Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied ...

In its pledge to ‘decolonize’ the Bard’s legacy, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has forsaken its historical mission in ...

It explores Shakespeare's life in Elizabethan England, his upbringing in Stratford, and the historical context of his plays. The text emphasizes that Shakespeare's characters and themes resonate ...

The setting of England during the Elizabethan era, was also amazing to see laid ... But as I close, I would like to ask you a ...

In the annals of William Shakespeare’s legacy ... and suggested a clandestine life during an era when secret allegiance to the Catholic Church in Elizabethan England could have been dangerous.

Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

“I found it really shocking and extraordinary that someone like Shakespeare, who was 400 years old and Elizabethan ... context of the Tudor era. “To love Shakespeare means to know him ...

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays ... Although it wasn’t until after the Elizabethan era that England became one of the world’s biggest slave trading nations, Elizabeth I did profit from ...

Even in Shakespeare’s day people were extremely superstitious. During the Elizabethan era people blamed unexplainable events such as the Bubonic Plague, unexplained deaths or unpleasant ...