Bear in mind that Elizabethan England is, on average, two degrees colder than you're used to, with very cold snaps in the 1570s and the 1590s. So a chimney means your stay will be a lot more ...

Discusses the enduring relevance of William Shakespeare and his works, highlighting his deep understanding of human nature and emotions. It explores Shakespeare's life in Elizabethan England, his ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Laura Van Den Berg THE HEAVENS By Sandra Newman The dream that summons an event, the ...

Video summary. Through a journey back in time, we discover that for many Elizabethans living in the countryside life could be very harsh. Ian Mortimer visits a reconstructed Elizabethan thatched ...

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, by Stephen Alford, Bloomsbury, 2012, 398 pages, $35 England in particular has a long history of spying on its own people. It is no ...

John Cooper's The Queen's Agent is an exploration of the rise of espionage in Elizabethan England, and is just as thrilling as any modern spy novel. At the center of this forgotten corner of ...

Recommended text: R.E. Pritchard, ed., Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times. History Press, 2003. ISBN: 0750932112, 9780750932110. All poems we’ll study in this course will be ...

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to $6 million at auction next month.

Broadly speaking, the Southern highlanders are an Old England folk, English and Scotch-Irish, whose forebears came forth from Elizabethan England, a nation of young life which had just found its ...

Experience a time-travelling escape as Elizabethan England comes to life at the Canterbury Renaissance Faire. Although the event has moved, it is still nestled away in a shaded grove in Silverton.