Elizabethan Era Literature

Elizabeth’s reign is referred to as the Elizabethan era or the Golden Age of Elizabeth. Playwrights William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, and Ben Jonson all flourished during this era: Francis Drake became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe: Francis Bacon laid out his philosophical and political views: and English colonisation of North America took place under Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. A favourite motto for her was video et taceo (I see and keep silent ) . This last quality, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often Henry VIII, she was writer and poet. She granted Royal Charters to several famous organisations, including Trinity College, Dublin ( its official name is the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Elizabeth near Dublin ) in 1592 and the British East India Company ( 1600 ).                                                                                     

In nearly forty-five years, only nine peerage dignities, one earldom and seven baronies in the peerage of England, and one barony in the peerage of Ireland, were created. She also reduced the number of Privy Counsellors from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.                                                                

The Commonwealth of Virginia, a former English colony in North America and one of the United States of Americas original 13 states, was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"

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