The Elizabethan Age(伊丽莎白时代)

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The Elizabethan Age
The Elizabethan Age was the epoch in English history of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558–1603). Historians often describe it as the "Golden age".
Elizabeth insisted she was married to her kingdom and subjects under divine protection.
"All my husbands, my good people."
Thank you.
In 1564 Elizabeth created Dudley Earl of Leicester. He finally remarried in 1578.
William Cecil, Nicholas Throckmorton, and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear. The nobility would rise if the marriage took place.
In England, the Elizabethan Age marked the beginning of the English Renaissance .
Something about ElizabethⅠ
Elizabeth I (September 7th 1533 – March 24th 1603) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from November 17th 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.
Marreveral suitors until she was about fifty.
offered the chance of an heir
provoke political instability or even insurrection
Amy Dudley died in September, 1560.
By 1570, senior figures in the government privately accepted that Elizabeth would never marry or name a successor.
Inspired a cult of virginity.

a virgin or a goddess or both not as a normal woman "And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin"
In 1558,when ElizabethⅠ was 25 years old,she became the queen of England.
How?
HenryⅧ
EdwardⅥ
MaryⅠ
The Virgin Queen ?
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She never did, although she received many offers for her hand.
In April she prorogued the Parliament, which did not reconvene until she needed its support to raise taxes in 1566. She turned down Philip II 's own hand in 1559. By 1569, Elizabeth considered marriage to two French Valois princes in turn.
In 1563, Elizabeth told an imperial envoy: "If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married".
Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigati -on of the globe added to the nation's prestige in navigation and exploration.
The great literary achievement of the Elizebethan Period was the drama.
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