The restored Elizabethan knot garden s, designed to reproduce the appearance of the gardens in 1575.

The lands of the manor were given to the Cecil family in 1588 and a new manor house was constructed and gardens laid out in the formal Elizabethan style.

* Lanhydrock House, near Bodmin, Cornwall ( 1857 ) an Elizabethan mansion rebuilt after a fire, formal gardens assisted by Richard Coad

At Kenilworth the speculative and commercial reconstruction of the castle gardens in an Elizabethan style led to a vigorous academic debate over the interpretation of archaeological and historical evidence.

The hall is surrounded by formal gardens and parkland, which once comprised an Elizabethan pleasure garden and, possibly, a tilting ground for jousting.

The gardens were created by Dorothy Elmhirst with the involvement of major landscape designers Beatrix Farrand and Percy Cane and feature a tiltyard ( thought actually to be the remains of an Elizabethan water garden ) and major sculptures, including examples by Henry Moore, Willi Soukop and Peter Randall-Page.

The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden, Desert Garden Conservatory, Rose Hill Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science, Desert Garden, Herb Garden, Japanese Garden and Zen Garden, Lily Pond, North Vista, Palm Garden, Rose garden, Elizabethan Garden ( previously called the Shakespeare garden ), Subtropical and Jungle Garden, the Chinese Garden ( Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance ) now open in the northern area of the property, and America's largest collection of the sculptural and ' palm-like ' Cycads.

The castle is surrounded by beautiful Elizabethan terraced gardens, including Elizabeth I's bowling green and a pine that is reputed to have been grown from a cutting taken from a tree at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Although largely derivative, Gerard's popularity can be attributed to his evocation of plants and places in Elizabethan England and to the clear influence of gardens and gardening on this work.

Nigella damascena has been grown in English cottage gardens since Elizabethan times, commonly called love-in-a-mist.

Shakespeare gardens may accompany reproductions of Elizabethan architecture.

Some Shakespeare gardens also grow species typical of the Elizabethan period but not mentioned in Shakespeare's plays or poetry.

The flower has been grown in English cottage gardens since Elizabethan times.

In Records of St. Giles ' Cripplegate ( 1883 ), the author describes an order made by Henry VII to convert Finsbury Fields from gardens, to fields for archery practice, however in Elizabethan times archery became unfashionable, and Grub Street is described as largely deserted, " except for low gambling houses and bowling-alleys — or, as we should call them, skittle-grounds.

Its Mediterranean habitat, elegant details of leaf and habit and dramatic show of fruit with flowers made Arbutus unedo notable in Classical Antiquity, when Pliny thought it should not be planted where bees are kept, for the bitterness it imparts to honey, but the first signs of its importation into northern European gardens was to England from 16th-century Ireland rather than from the Mediterranean basin ; in 1586 a correspondent in Ireland sent plants to the Elizabethan courtiers Lord Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham.

Cottage gardens, which emerged in Elizabethan times, appear to have originated as a local source for herbs and fruits.

In Elizabethan times in England, these plants were believed to be a strong aphrodisiac.

Even after Elizabethan traditions were weakened by the Cromwellian interregnum, the practice of singing together -- choruses, catches and glees -- always flourished.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was defended on " scientific or economic principals " while the authors of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 were seen as not having had the benefit of reading Malthus.

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

The notion of a great Elizabethan age depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign.

For example, in the 17th century cross dressing was common in plays, as, for example, evident in the content of many of William Shakespeare's plays ( and by the actors in the actual performances, since female roles in Elizabethan Theater were always performed by males, usually prepubescent boys ).

In the summer of 1606, laws against recusancy were strengthened ; the Popish Recusants Act returned England to the Elizabethan system of fines and restrictions, introduced a sacramental test, and an Oath of Allegiance, requiring Catholics to abjure as a " heresy " the doctrine that " princes excommunicated by the Pope could be deposed or assassinated ".

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.

Although Mary's rule was ultimately ineffectual and unpopular, the policies of fiscal reform, naval expansion and colonial exploration that were later lauded as Elizabethan accomplishments were started in Mary's reign.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

French drama of the 17th century, particularly that of Molière and Racine was highly regular ; whereas the English dramatists writing for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage were largely unaware of these strictures.

The dramas of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods were developed out of mystery plays.

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.

English achievements in exploration were noteworthy in the Elizabethan era.

There were many different types of Elizabethan sports and entertainment:

During the Elizabethan era, people looked forward to holidays because opportunities for leisure were limited, with time away from hard work being restricted to periods after church on Sundays.

During the summer and fall months, entire families traveled together in their trucks and buses, parked at Renaissance Pleasure Faire sites in Southern and Northern California, worked their crafts during the week, and donned Elizabethan costume for weekend performances, and to attend booths where handmade goods were sold to the public.

He added a 15th century style gatehouse to the castle's medieval structures, as well as a formal garden and a residential wing which featured the " brittle, thin walls and grids of windows " that were to become the hallmark of Elizabethan architecture in later decades.

The Latin words Et tu, Brute ?, however, were not devised by Shakespeare for this play, since they are attributed to Caesar in earlier Elizabethan works and had become conventional by 1599.

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.

They view the physical description of women as evidence of a more farcical intention when considered alongside both the historical context of the Elizabethan theatre ( where female characters were always played by prepubescent boys ) and the Induction in which Sly is attracted to the page disguised as his wife ; thus Shakespeare is satirising gender roles.

Rebellious women were a concern for Englishmen because they posed a threat to the patriarchal model of a good household upon which Elizabethan society was built.

Efforts to establish the play's date of composition and genesis have been complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew, which is often theorised to be a reported text of a performance of The Shrew, a source for The Shrew, or an early draft ( possibly reported ) of The Shrew.

After a disruptive early period ( during which the Temple was almost entirely destroyed in the Peasants ' Revolt ) it flourished, becoming the second largest Inn during the Elizabethan period ( after Gray's Inn ).

It was of compact design, retaining in spite of its large seating capacity much of the intimate actor / audience contact of the Elizabethan theater, still with an almost Elizabethan-size forestage or apron stage, on which actors would come forward for maximum audience contact.

While education at that time was almost exclusively offered to boys and men, one reason that Marbury may have focused on teaching his daughters is that his five oldest surviving children were all girls ; another reason may have been that the ruling class in Elizabethan England began realizing that girls could be schooled, looking to the example of the queen, who spoke six foreign languages.

If the spelling is modernized, it reads almost like Elizabethan English.

* Church of England: St Andrews ' Church on Church Street has a Norman chancel with an Elizabethan double-hammerbeam roof and was almost certainly built on the site of an older Saxon church.

Women were almost exclusively banned from appearing as actresses on the stage until approximately 1660 and in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, troupes appeared that were composed entirely of boy players.

Another version, which appears at least as far back the Elizabethan Era, attributes the name to a Norman Knight who fought in the crusades and was distinguished in battle by the shores of the Dead Sea, but this is unsubstantiated and almost certainly a romanticised myth.

An interesting detail is that the city, from its foundations, was heavily tainted with dark magic, first due to the activities of an unholy cult calling themselves the Tuesday Club, which was composed of Opal's most influential and powerful citizens, from its beginnings as Port O ' Souls in the Elizabethan era until Savage killed almost the entire cult the final night of 1899.