The golden era of Elizabethan literature may be said to date its commencement from the seven years which lie between 1579 and 1587--in other words, with the first characteristic poems of Spenser ...

THE term “literature of the age of Elizabeth ” is not confined to the literature produced in the reign of Elizabeth, but is a general name for an era in literature, commencing about the middle ...

The Elizabethan era in the 16th century was one of adventure, intrigue, personalities, plots and power struggles. At the centre was Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The Virgin Queen’ and the latter part of ...

Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642. By FELIX E. SCHELLING, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. 2 vols. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co. 1908. ↩ The Age of Shakespeare.