* Gerald Eades Bentley, scholar of Elizabethan theatre

Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt notes how Richard even refers to himself as " the formal Vice, Iniquity " ( 3. 1. 82 ), which informs the audience that he knows what his function is ; but also like Vice in the morality plays, the fates will turn and get Richard in the end, which Elizabethan audiences would have recognised.

It may have been due to Cecil's encouragement that Googe accompanied the Elizabethan humanist scholar Sir Thomas Challoner on a diplomatic embassy to Spain in 1562.

In 1909 his volume Elizabethan Drama Notes and Studies proclaimed him a scholar of unusual ability and knowledge, and his studies in this period stimulated him to write his one-act play in blank verse To-Morrow: A Dramatic Sketch of the Character and Environment of Robert Greene.

As an Elizabethan scholar, his only rival in Australia in his day was Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant.

There is also a wall tablet in memory of Robert Recorde, an Elizabethan scholar, who introduced the equals sign (

The Oxford, Cambridge, and Arden editions are significantly more scholarly than the Signet and abovementioned Bantam plays ; that is, the scholar assumes the reader to be somewhat versed in Elizabethan English such that the glossaries focus more about mythological and cultural references than mere syntax.

His passionate interest in the portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I was sidelined " while he wrote a thesis on Elizabethan Court Pageantry supervised by the Renaissance scholar, Dame Frances Yates who ( he says ) restructured and re-formed my thinking.

In the late 16th century, the Elizabethan mathematician and scholar John Dee and the medium and alchemist Edward Kelley ( both of whom were familiar with Agrippa's writings ) claimed that during skrying sessions, a " Celestial Speech " was received directly from Angels.

By the middle of the 17th century, plays such as Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda, although based largely on the earlier Elizabethan works, were transferring the role of Protestant champion to the barons and focusing more on the tyrannical aspects of John's behaviour.

Within the church, William Lamont argues, the Elizabethan millennial views of John Foxe became sidelined, with Puritans adopting instead the " centrifugal " views of Brightman, while the Laudians replaced the " centripetal " attitude of Foxe to the ' Christian Emperor ' by the national and episcopal Church closer to home, with its royal head, as leading the Protestant world iure divino ( by divine right ).

Music for consorts was very popular in England in Elizabethan times, with composers such as William Byrd and John Dowland, and, during the reign of King Charles I, John Jenkins and William Lawes.

In Elizabethan English, the word " gambo " ( for gamba ) appears in many permutations ; e. g., " viola de gambo ", " gambo violl ", " viol de gambo ", or " viole de gambo ", used by such notables as Tobias Hume, John Dowland, and William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.

The Elizabethan English constitutionalist John Aylmer compared the mixed government of Tudor England to the Spartan republic, stating that " Lacedemonia Sparta, the noblest and best city governed that ever was ".

Together with two sets of English songs, discussed below, these collections, dedicated to powerful Elizabethan lords ( Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley ), probably formed part of Byrd's campaign to re-establish himself in Court circles after the reverses of the 1580s.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

The antiquary John Brand claimed that in Elizabethan and Jacobean-era England they were known as minched pies, but other names include mutton pie, and starting in the following century, Christmas pie.

* Bossy, John ( 2002 ): Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story Yale Nota Bene ISBN 0-300-09450-7

In and before the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, terms like " strumpet " and " whore " were used to describe women deemed promiscuous, as seen for example in John Webster's 1612 play The White Devil.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

* Payne, Edward John, Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America ( vol.

* O ' Connor, John J. Amadis de Gaule and its influence on Elizabethan Literature.

The present house is mainly Elizabethan, with a Gothic façade added in the 1820s to a design probably by John Buckler.

In the village there is Elvington Hall, built during Elizabethan times and remodelled in the 18th century by John Carr ; famous writer Laurence Sterne lived there for a period of his childhood ; Roger Jacques and Simone Sterne, his grandparents, controlled the manor prior to 1700.

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( 1550 – 1625 ), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

* French, Peter ( 2002 ): John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus.

By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including John Dowland, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.

John Dee, noted Elizabethan philosopher, magician and scientist and also responsible for the introduction to the first English translation of Euclid was educated at the Chantry School ( later re-founded as the Grammar School ) in the sixteenth century.

The antihero has evolved over time, changing as society's conceptions of the hero changed, from the Elizabethan times of Faust and William Shakespeare's Falstaff, to the darker-themed Victorian literature of the 19th century, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, written in the mid-18th century, or as a timid, passive, indecisive man that contrasts sharply with other Greek heroes to Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life.

* In English novelist Peter Ackroyd's 1993 novel The House of Doctor Dee, John Dee, the Elizabethan mathematician, astrologer, philosopher and magus, attempts and succeeds in creating a homunculus.

* books belonging to and annotated by the Elizabethan astrologer and occultist John Dee

The college buildings remained the property of the Stanleys, and wardens ( including the Elizabethan astronomer and mathematician John Dee ) lived on the premises with their families and servants.

* Martin Kugler, Astronomy in Elizabethan England, 1558 to 1585: John Dee, Thomas Digges, and Giordano Bruno, Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1982.

* French, Peter ( 2002 ): John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus Routledge ISBN 978-0-7448-0079-1

* French, Peter ( 2002 ): John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus Routledge ISBN 0-7448-0079-X

In contrast with Lancaster, Harrison was able to prepare an organised plan for the gaol, as it was to be built on a new site behind the Elizabethan Shire Hall on land sloping down to the River Dee.

After his death, Laycock's meticulous work on the Enochian ' language ' ( which was allegedly channelled to an associate of the Elizabethan mystic John Dee ) was turned by a colleague into one of the very few classics of skeptical linguistics.

Another reason for using the 007 number was the polymath and Elizabethan spy, John Dee, who would sign his letters to Elizabeth I with 00 and an elongated 7, to signify they were for her eyes only.

A comedy was performed at the Elizabethan court in 1567-8 with the title Jack and Jill and the phrase was used twice by Shakespeare: in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which contains the line: " Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill " ( III: ii: 460-2 ) and in Love's Labour's Lost, which has the lines: " Our wooing doth not end like an old play ; Jack hath not Jill " ( V: ii: 874 – 5 ), suggesting that it was a phase that indicated a romantically attached couple, as in the proverb " A good Jack makes a good Jill ".

First seen clad in Edwardian garb he makes his second appearance in a more Elizabethan style.

But Flora Robson makes an interesting Queen Elizabeth, Claude Rains and Henry Daniell play a couple of villainous conspirators handsomely, there is a lot of brocaded scenery and rich Elizabethan costumes and, of course, there is Brenda Marshall to shed a bit of romantic light.