Queen Elizabeth I lifestory
patronage rather than ask Parliament
for more subsidies in a time of war.
This same period of economic and political
uncertainty, however, produced an
unsurpassed literary flowering in England.
The first signs of a new literary movement
had appeared at the end of the second decade
of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's
Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The The notion of a great Elizabethan age
Shepheardes Calender in 1578. depends largely on the builders,
dramatists, poets, and musicians who
During the 1590s, some of the great names of were active during Elizabeth's reign.
English literature entered their maturity,
including William Shakespeare and
They owed little directly to the queen,
Christopher Marlowe.
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