Elizabeth Essay Examples

Consider how Shakespeare’s themes of prejudice and chaos versus order were received by his contemporary audience. How does Geoffrey Sax’s production continue to find relevance in these issues for the modern audience? Othello is a play of tragedy; that examines the darker aspects of human existence, and forces us as audience to contemplate what it […]

Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama, but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. […]

Elizabethan Clothing The most alien concepts of the Elizabethan era was that, regardless of their wealth, Elizabethans were not allowed to wear what clothes they liked. Their clothing and items of apparel were dictated by the Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws which governed the style and materials worn. The Elizabethan Sumptuary Clothing Laws were used to control […]

There frequently comes a point in the history of a state when its people must stand and contend or be vanquished at the custodies of their enemies. In such instances when conflicts draw near. it is often necessary for great leaders to lift up and oblige their followings to remain strong in the face of […]

I have chosen two poems by Sylvia Plath called ‘Blackberrying’ and ‘Mirror’. Plath was a manic depressive most of her life, she was married to Ted Hughes who later became poet laureate, but despite this marriage she claimed never to feel truly loved nor that she could give all her love to one person. She […]

The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era. The Encyclop? dia Britannica still maintains that “The long reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, was England’s Golden Age… ‘Merry England,’ in love with life, expressed itself in music and literature, in architecture, and in adventurous seafaring. “[1] This idealising tendency was shared by […]

The children’s novel ‘45 and 47 Stella Street and everything that happened’ (Honey, 1995) written by Elizabeth Honey is a novel aimed at pre-adolescent girls. However in saying that boys around the same age would also find this book enjoyable. The story is told from the perspective of Hinni who is an 11 year old […]

Elizabeth Jennings’ One Flesh bears the overarching significance of how a relationship will end if it were to lack communication. Through the use of diction in “floatsam” and “wait” to depict the non-progressing, stagnant nature of their relationship, Jennings tells us that communication is vital to fuel a romance, old age causing the relationship to […]

Elizabeth Jennings was a well-educated English woman who worked in publishing and as a librarian. She devoted much of her poetry to spiritual and emotional topics of a personal nature. She explored suffering, relationships, loneliness and religious faith. In this poem, Elizabeth explores the nature of a marriage relationship in old age. It is very […]

Margaret Floy Washburn was born on July 25, 1871 in Harlem, New York City to Rev. Francis and Elizabeth Floy Washburn. She was an only child and did not attend school until the age of seven, although she could read and write long before that. Her first school was private and kept by the Misses […]

The main characters in the king’s speech are the King who’s called Bertie in the movie and is played by Colin Firth, the Queen Elizabeth who is played by Helena Bonham Carter and Lionel Logue who is played by Geoffrey Rush. Also through out the movies you see the Kings daughters and many other people […]

Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney is a colonial planter born in Antigua. Her father was a lieutenant governor who even wanted her be paired to some of the well known child of land owners there. She refuse doing so and marry a man whom she chose to be with for the rest of her life. Marrying a […]

Love is a theme that can be written and expressed in many ways, using many different literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, personification, allusion, etc. The poems, Sonnet 29 written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sonnet 43 written by Elizabeth Barret Browning, are both very different from each other as they both are conveying […]

Tragedy has its origins in Ancient Greek, it was a kind of performance to honor Dionysus. They were performed as competition between three playwrights. Actors who took part in the plays were all man and they all wore masks. They wore masks to impersonate satyrs. According to Aristotle ‘’ Tragedy depicts the downfall of a […]

Smoking tobacco had been popular since the Elizabethan times and at this point in time thousands of people are still killing themselves by doing something that simply is lighting tobacco wrapped in paper and inhaling the smoke – yet people continue to do it, why? Peoples rights – to and not to smoke? And the […]

William Shakespeare wrote the play ‘Twelfth Night’ to suit his Elizabethan audience, so that is why perhaps there is a lot of confusion in the play, as the Elizabethans loved puzzles. In this time and age we may find it difficult to believe that a woman could be successfully disguised as a man. However in […]

Ispahan carpet is a four stanza poem written by Elizabeth Burge. From the title, you can see the poem is set in an eastern country and this becomes obvious as the poem evolves. The poem is set in a rug making factory, this is suggested by the way the narrator describes how she is with […]

In the Elizabethen era, religion was very important. The Roman Catholic Church had gained enormous power and influence over the centuries. It claimed to be a gateway to Heaven and could send those it wanted to Hell. To the Roman Catholics there was also such a thing as Purgatory, the place where the soul is […]

There is a difference between the unhealthful experiences of isolation from the healthful and necessary experience of occasional solitude. Having time alone is an important part of emotional maturity. Sometimes we need alone time to sort through are thoughts, distress from a busy day. In a demanding world of seven billion people, restore a connection […]

Sonnet 43 was written in secret in Patriarchal style by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It was written in first person with dominant figure of speech anaphora. Expressing the intense love she feels for her husband-to-be, Whereas Sonnet 116 is about love in the most ideal form. It admires people who have got together freely and base […]

Birth of a Princess Elizabeth I was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When the little Princess was born on Sunday, the seventh of September, 1533, few could have predicted the glittering life ahead of her. Her birth was undoubtedly a great disappointment to her father, and a political […]