Elizabeth I + Era by Lotte Vertommen https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2 en-us 2021-12-06 11:00:55 UTC 2025-06-05 14:06:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f451.png Christopher Marlowe lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930880943 "Shakespeare's most important predecessor in English drama"

Had several brushes with the law
Was a part of Elizabeth I's secret service
Writing career of only 6 years
Was killed (allegedly during a fight over the bill)

Unorthodox religious beliefs

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Marlowe
https://web.archive.org/web/20111011230221/http://marlowetheatre.com/page/3170/Christopher-Marlowe]]> 2021-12-06 11:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930880943 The Marlowe Theatre lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930894136 Theatre in Canterbury, where Christopher Marlowe was born and attended school]]> 2021-12-06 11:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930894136 Elizabeth, an overview. s0111223_1_1 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930908540 2021-12-06 11:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930908540 Video et taceo s0111223_1_1 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930931310 Video et taceo was a motto of Queen Elizabeth 1. It stands for 'I see but I remain silent'. It conjures the quality of hidden power that can reside in the silence of the sovereign. It is said that she was cautious and foreward looking. ]]> 2021-12-06 12:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930931310 Why did Elizabeth never marry? s0111223_1_1 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930937263 Elizabeth I didn't marry. This was very unusual for royalty at the time as marriage and childbirth were seen as the best ways to ensure the monarchy. 
Contributing factors of Elizabeth not marrying:
  •  As a teenager, she was traumatised by sexually harmful behaviour by her stepfather. 
  • She changed English’ religion from Catholicism to Protestantism. If she married catholic royalty, the marriage would threaten her religious agenda. All the while, marrying a protestant from the aristocracy would favour one family over the others. When growing up Elizabeth saw the wreckage this created.
  • If she married then she would lose power to her husband. By not marrying she was both queen and king.
  • Marriage negotiations constituted a key element in Elizabeth's foreign policy: entertaining marriage negotiations with members of Europe’s royal families, established subtle diplomatic relationships with foreign countries. 
  • She observed that out of the three marriages of her rival for the throne, Mary Queen of Scots, two stirred political conflict. This might have made her approach a possible marriage very cautiously indeed. 
  • In parliament Elizabeth insisted that she was married to her kingdom and subjects, under divine protection. In 1599, she spoke the famous words "all my husbands, my good people".
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfHKBzIvXY
More info: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/elizabeth-i-marriage-succession#:~:text=Early%20on%20in%20her%20reign,for%20one%20reason%20or%20another.
]]> 2021-12-06 12:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1930937263 From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942861505 Henry VIII died and put his only son Edward (age 9) on the throne.

Edward I died from tuberculosis but didn’t want his half sisters to succeed him so he appointed Lady Jane Grey.

After nine days, she was overthrown by the more popular Mary I.

Mary I had a lot of health issues and has had two false pregnancies. The last one caused her to die. The phantom pregnancies are thought to have been ovarian dropsy. 

She was succeeded by her half sister Elizabeth I.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-VI
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-I

]]> 2021-12-12 15:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942861505 Elizabethan literature lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942950592 Elizabethan literature, body of works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature, during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Roger Ascham, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare flourished. The epithet Elizabethan is merely a chronological reference and does not describe any special characteristic of the writing.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Elizabethan-literature]]> 2021-12-12 16:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942950592 Movie trailer: Elizabeth (1998) lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942965711 Sets the scene of how the UK was before and at the start of Elizabeth's reign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGBwrtIamw]]> 2021-12-12 17:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1942965711 Elizabeth I's love for theatre lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943879204 She was also a avid supporter of the arts which sparked a surge of activity in the theater. During her reign, some playwrights were able to make a comfortable living by receiving royal patronage. There was a great deal of theatrical activity at Court, and many public theaters were also built on the outskirts of London.

Some of the most important playwrights come from the Elizabethan era, including William Shakespeare, and Christopher Marlowe.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-I
https://www.britannica.com/art/Elizabethan-literature
]]> 2021-12-13 07:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943879204 Education of Elizabeth I s0111223_1_1 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943900352
  • Elizabeth was one of the best educated women of her generation.
  • A lot of attention was paid to her education. She shared the tutors of her half-brother Edward. Many of these tutors were the brightest minds from Cambridge University. 
  • Elizabeth spoke 6 languages by the age of 11: English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Welsh. She learned to write in Greek, Latin, French & English. At the end of her life was also believed to speak Cornish, Scottish and Irish. 
  • From her teenage years and throughout her life she translated works in Latin and Greek by numerous classical authors, including Cicero, Plutarch, Tacitus.. A translation of Tacitus - one of only four surviving English translations from the early modern era - was confirmed as Elizabeth's own in 2019, after a detailed analysis of the handwriting and paper was undertaken.
    • Picture: The cover of Elizabeth’s translation of The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, given to Katherine Parr.
    More information:
    ]]>     2021-12-13 07:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943900352     The Virgin Queen s0111223_1_1 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943910165 Elizabeth's unmarried status inspired a cult of virginity related to that of the Virgin Mary. She was called The Virgin Queen. She was depicted as a virgin or a goddess (and not as a normal woman) in portraits and literature.
    This claim of virginity was not universally accepted. Catholics accused her of engaging in so called "filthy lust" and this defiling the nation along with her body. The central question when it comes to that question of her virginity, is whether she  consummated her love affair with Robert Dudley. Aside from Dudley she had many close friends who were men, including Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake, and Robert Devereux, as well as many prominent suitors, including many of Europe's nobility including kings and their heirs.
    More information: https://www.thehistoryville.com/elizabeth-i-virgin-queen/]]>     2021-12-13 07:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1943910165     The mystery of Shakespeare lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944232571 Not much is known for certain about Shakespeare.

    - Only 12 words were found written in his own handwriting
    - "Lost years" where there's nothing known about his whereabouts
    - Only 2 portraits and one bust statue that show what he COULD have looked like, again no certainty
    - ...

    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91160/do-we-actually-know-what-shakespeare-looked
    Bill Bryson - Shakespeare]]>     2021-12-13 11:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944232571     Shakespeare's works lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944237471 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/]]> 2021-12-13 11:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944237471 The Globe lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944239709 Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.]]> 2021-12-13 11:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944239709 Legend: colours lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944247159 Pink: General information about Elizabeth I
    Yellow: Extra information/fun facts about Elizabeth I
    Green: Extra material
    Blue: Elizabethian literature (Shakespeare & Marlowe)]]>     2021-12-13 11:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1944247159     William Shakespeare lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1954147431 William Shakespeare was an English dramatist, poet, and actor considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.

    Shakespeare’s exact birth date remains unknown. He was baptized in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, his mother’s third child, but the first to survive infancy.
    Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, on what may have been his 52nd birthday.

    Most famous works (during Elizabeth I's reign)
    1 – Romeo and Juliet
    2 – The Merchant of Venice
    3 – Henry V
    4 – Much Ado About Nothing
    5 – Hamlet
    6 – Three Kings Night


    https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare
    https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/william-shakespeare/william-shakespeare-biography/
    https://10famousworks.com/works-of-shakespeare/
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-shakespeare
    ]]>     2021-12-17 18:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1954147431     Elizabeth I lottevertommen1999 https://padlet.com/lottevertommen1999/l310zaf4uf6opcp2/wish/1954165383 Elizabeth I, bynames the Virgin Queen and Good Queen Bess, (September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603), queen of England (1558 - 1603) during a period, often called the Elizabethan Age, when England asserted itself vigorously as a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts.

    She was born at Greenwich Palace, the daughter of the Tudor king Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

    Predecessors: Mary I
    Successor: James I

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