Elizabethan Golden Age

Who was Elizabeth I?

• queen of england and becomes monarch at age 25

• one of if not the greatest english monarch

• achieved religious settlement- outlined form of Anglican Church

• supreme governor of church of england

• female rule

• foreign policy

• arts

Scottish Reformation

• Scotland doesn’t break from Rome with England and remains Catholic

• Patrick Hamilton returns to Scotland and holds private meetings but was caught and convicted at the stake

• became Presbyterianism

The Female Monarch

• issues of gender construction- elizabeth is unmarried woman in power

• artists honored elizabeth by painting portraits of her- high fashion and white complexion

female monarch in religion

• supreme governor,mm not head

• remained in background

• channeled medieval woman saints and virgin mary

• accession day- day elizabeth came to thrown was celebrated across the country

virgin queen

• elizabeth was married to the enlightened people

• entertained a nymber of royal suitors but never marrried

• gossip about her sexual life sweirled

• lack of an heir created anxiety for the people

Elizabethan Foreign Policy

• avoids war to save money and resources

• rivalry with spain was sparked though after Francis Drake raided spanish ships with her blessing

  • got them gold, porcelain, silver, jewelry, coins

• pushes catholicism on netherlands

Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588

• Spain prepares a great invincible Armada to invade England

• English had timber set aflame and pushed towards the spanish ships formations and had longer-range cannons forcing the Spanish to retreat

Armada Portrai of Elizabeth I

surrounded by symbols of imperial majesty- crown on table, hand over globe and fingers are covering the Americas to suggest imperialist plans, ships and protestant wind in background

Arts in Elizabethan England

arts blossomed because she enjoyed music, dancing, plays, and theater going becomes popular

• theater is more cultures because other entertainment included: bear-baiting- attract a bear that chained to a tree and release a pack of dogs on bear

• cock fighting- roosters were put in a ring to see which chicken won

Globe Theater

• associated with William Shakespeare

• had ability to summarize range of human emotions in eloquent verse

• John Bartlett pulled a lot of quotes from Shakespeare

• created compelling characters

  • Hamlet, romeo and juliet, macbeth

  • why actors deeply admire shakespeare- difficult but most rewarding role they can have

• Tragedies, Histories, and Comedies are Shakespeare’s three genres

• gave us numerous common expressions- ex. vanished into thin air

• NATO Phonetic Alphabet