How To Use Elizabethan In A Sentence
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The great house they built may just be ridges in the field to the south-west of the church, but you feel you have met them, Sir Arthur Throckmorton, an Elizabethan squire, and his wife.
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England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Thus an Elizabethan ‘Homer’ could well mean an English translation of an Italian redaction, or of a French or Latin version of the Greek original.
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an Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes
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The libretto imports a number of Elizabethan lyrics which add to the overall lyrical quality of the work.
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Sherman typically enacts a series of portraits - Elizabethan whores, gangster's molls, and now a series of clowns.
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It will be modelled on the Elizabethan galleried theatres in the shape of a horseshoe, with a projecting stage.
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It was truly one of the greatest adventures of the age, and historic, for here we get the word El Dorado, used for the first time in the history of discovery -- the legendary land of gold which was never found, but which attracted all the Elizabethan sailors to this romantic country.
A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
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Played with mercurial Elan by Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare gets unlocked when he meets Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow, sizzling with sensual intelligence), a stage-struck young aristocrat who disguises herself as a boy so she can act in the males-only Elizabethan theater.
Close-Up On Will
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This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.
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In fact this approach, called stichomythia, played a part in the creation of the Elizabethan tragic style.
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Treven Hall had been an Elizabethan, half-timbered manor house.
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O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
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Elizabethan music
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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This brings us to one of the harsh realities of Elizabethan life: the whole of society is intensely hierarchical.
Times, Sunday Times
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An Elizabethan playwright - Shakespeare himself - is stymied by writer's block until he discovers his muse.
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His book captures exactly the ethos of Elizabethan England.
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Though not required by the Protestant prayer book, chrisom cloths were still standard equipment, at least in the Elizabethan period.
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Their great finesse and qualities of ensemble were displayed in works ranging from Elizabethan consort music to the Hungarian avant-garde.
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There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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Bess was a very keen gardener and flowers and plants feature in the Elizabethan needlework and tapestries in the house.
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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He had succeeded to the earldom in 1678 and embarked on an ambitious programme for refurbishing his Elizabethan ancestral home.
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The decisive event in Elizabethan western expansion was Drake's circumnavigation voyage of 1577-1580.
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Early Elizabethan anthems were modelled on the Latin antiphon or motet, but they cautiously followed the queen's injunction by being largely syllabic, with a minimum of counterpoint.
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Spice and fruit breads, similar to hot cross buns, were typical Elizabethan Lenten fare.
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It has got to be as terrific for the emotional growth of Britain's young people as, say, bear-baiting was for the Elizabethans.
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He had studied to advantage the Elizabethan and Jacobean masters of the string fantasy.
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The second Elizabethan era has been a quite astonishing display of selfless service to her people.
The Sun
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But it's also a history play, and crams in all the issues of statecraft, politics, and morality that obsessed the Elizabethans.
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One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
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It was truly one of the greatest adventures of the age, and historic, for here we get the word El Dorado, used for the first time in the history of discovery -- the legendary land of gold which was never found, but which attracted all the Elizabethan sailors to this romantic country.
A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
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(link) I did myself decide a while back that custard was like dullard, an Elizabethan rudery - "oh, you insufferable custard!
Mrissa: fake swears
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Many Elizabethan plays are written in blank verse.
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Literature as it developed in the reign of Elizabeth ran counter to the hopes and desires of the men who began the movement; the common usage which extends the term Elizabethan backwards outside the limits of the reign itself, has nothing but its carelessness to recommend it.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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This rhetoric was imitated in Elizabethan schools and began to make an impact on the stage.
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There were many magnificent pieces at Tresillian, but mostly heavy items of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Neither in his sonnets, nor in his various stanzas composed of heroics, nor in what may be called his doggerel metres -- the fatally fluent Alexandrines, fourteeners, and admixtures of both, which dominated English poetry from his time to Spenser's, and were never quite rejected during the Elizabethan period -- do we find evidence of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, which makes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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And here is the edginess of the Elizabethan Court, as Arthur and his relations, like many courtiers, are in and out of the slammer like a problem family on a housing estate.
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson as the first person to use the word plagiary to designate literary theft -- and he was making a joke.
Periscope
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The Elizabethan period was the golden age of English drama.
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The second Elizabethan era has been a quite astonishing display of selfless service to her people.
The Sun
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The garden, reflecting the Elizabethan fashion, has four courtyards enclosed by high sandstone walls.
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Hmm. Romance-related books I recently read were John Lambshead's Lucy's Blade, a historical fantasy novel set in Elizabethan England.
Friday Book Club
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The house was built during the Elizabethan period.
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Whiter illustrates his point by showing how the conditions of Elizabethan dramatic presentation reinforced the use of certain repeatedly connected images.
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Similar comments apply to the pavane, the galliarde and the volta from the Elizabethan period.
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So there is a kind of perspectivism that's built into the Elizabethan intellectual culture.
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Are you lusting for a tantalisingly Elizabethan experience, like only Willy Shake can provide?
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This all started because my favourite music is Tudor and Elizabethan church music, and I'd set up a little subsite dealing with the object of my musical affection.
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
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The close relationship between the consort song and the Elizabethan verse anthem makes it at least possible that both genres began with the same scoring: voices and viols.
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Dybwad, being nearer to the Elizabethan time in her daily life, gives us an Elizabethan maiden with a touch of "homeliness"; but Julia Marlowe's, like Ada Rehan's "Rosalind," has something of the artificial character of Watteau.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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The Elizabethan-style building has been surveyed by a historic buildings expert, and a schedule of work has been drawn up to restore it to its former glory.
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Sir Francis Drake was a famous Elizabethan.
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The Elizabethan age was a time of exploration and discovery.
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Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ...
Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
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Elizabethans still employed the term ingenium, or its counterpart at that time, “wit.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Consequently, Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently.
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In some of the more remote hollows, children still grow up hearing songs of Elizabethan times.
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Parents can join in the Elizabethan dancing with actors in authentic costumes copied from portraits, while children play with Elizabethan toys.
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Also apparent is an ancestral link with Elizabethan miscellanies like Tottel's Songs and Sonnettes and The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises.
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Chaucer was fairly heavily influenced by Boccaccio 'Decamerom and the English Literature you eulogise (quite correctly) appears to stop with the Elizabethans and before the novel - some mistake surely.
Phillip Shipley MP Wants Union Jack on Mosques
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Abler students would do well to supplement Post's book with Bell's ‘Elizabethan Women and Poetry of Courtship’.
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Whiter illustrates his point by showing how the conditions of Elizabethan dramatic presentation reinforced the use of certain repeatedly connected images.
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One of the most famous composers and lutenists of his day, Dowland also represented the Elizabethan artistic temperament.
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Throughout Lady Rebecca regaled members with interesting titbits and explanations of why the Elizabethans wore shifts, fur trimming, cuffs and ruffs, etc.
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Less-is-more set design, it seems, had no fan in the Elizabethan sonneteer.
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Live music, powerful choreography and a simple performance style allow a modern audience to experience Shakespeare's great love story as an Elizabethan audience might have done.
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The Queen's mingling of the old and new religions (the 'Elizabethan Settlement') perturbed reformers and conservatives alike.
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Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Her poor, martyred heart is then subjected to all the glorious pains of unfulfilled love we associate with the Petrarchan traditions of the late Elizabethan era.
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This temperament the Elizabethans would have called melancholic; and Hamlet seems to be an example of it, as Lear is of a temperament mixedly choleric and sanguine.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
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William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan
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Whether that crowd consists of Elizabethan tradesmen or Harvard postmodernists, Shakespeare entertains his audiences while challenging them to think.
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This inspiration permeated the whole soil of national thought, and its embodiment in art and letters has hardly any parallel except in that brilliant morning of English thought which we know as the Elizabethan era.
The Great German Composers
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This word, like many other adjectives in _-some_, is now less common than it was in Elizabethan English: many such adjectives are obsolete, _e. g._ laboursome, joysome, quietsome, etc. (see Trench's
Milton's Comus
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British chronology is reckoned in royal reigns; epochs of history are named after kings and queens: the Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian ages.
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Claire, for instance, a splendid-looking albino with long, Afro-frizzy, white-blonde hair, large nose and thin lips, exudes a stunning, Elizabethan regality.
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Helena's desire to lose her virginity belies the image of the little Elizabethan sexless virgin who doesn't really have any sexual desire.
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This ersatz-Elizabethan mock-up, approximating to some incomplete and sketchy idea of the original, provides an anodyne facsimile of Elizabethan experience, from which the roughness, stench, and hazard have been removed.
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In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive.
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The critics here have a good point: the whole thing is written in this atrocious faux-Elizabethan monologue, and has no character development, no description, and the sketchiest of plots.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)
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Elizabethan and Jacobian periods is particularly full; and this is as it should be; for at no time was our language more equally removed from conventionalism and commonplace, or so fitted to refine strength of passion with recondite thought and airy courtliness of phrase.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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The Elizabethan period was the golden age of English drama.
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Consequently, Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently.
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In Elizabethan England, these laws attempted to restrict the sumptuousness of dress in order to curb extravagance, protect fortunes, and make clear the necessary and appropriate distinctions between levels of society.
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The soliloquy was an Elizabethan dramatic convention.
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The same old monsters surface to be tormented like animals at an Elizabethan fair.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The museum's eclectic collection spans 400 years and includes rare pieces like a 1565 Elizabethan table napkin.
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British laughter is not the kind of laughter that the enemy likes, because it is the same laughter as that of old Elizabethan buccaneers.
What I Have Seen Over There and Over Here
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We shall therefore rapidly survey its chief developments, noting first what had been done before Elizabeth came to the throne, then taking Ascham (who stands, though part of his work was written earlier, very much as the first Elizabethan prosaist), noticing the schools of historians, translators, controversialists, and especially critics who illustrated the middle period of the reign, and singling out the noteworthy personality of Sidney.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The real boggler for me is the writer who completely misses the emotional landscape of a period, not just by making the characters modern American or British, but by evoking a completely different period–like the author who is writing Elizabethan but her whole affect is Victorian.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Yes, Things Were Different Then
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The Elizabethan Poor Law enshrined this right with the practice of sturdy and less sturdy beggars being sent back to their parish of origin ostensibly for help.
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There was a brief, perfect Elizabethan moment when conditions were propitious and all was well.
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Individual dressing rooms were not a feature of Elizabethan playhouses, so actors were to dress in whatever open space they could find.
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I frequently have to backspace out of odd Elizabethan spellings like ‘mouthes’.
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A gulf lay between the spartan domestic housecraft of the Paston women and the refined tastes of the Elizabethan Court ladies, who, grown old, says Harrison, spent their time reading histories, or
The Common Reader
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This is yet another complication to the notion of recreating authentically an Elizabethan performance.
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It is no exaggeration to say that some of the actions of the packets and their dauntless crews recall the palmy days of Elizabethan naval prowess and exploits such as that of the immortal _Revenge_.
The Cornwall Coast
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I've also got some great pictures of me in my Elizabethan togs which I will scan in today so keep your eye open for some new pictures in the gallery.
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The five act structure, the appearance of some kind of ghost, the one line exchanges known as stichomythia, and Seneca's use of long rhetorical speeches were all later used in tragedies by Elizabethan playwrights.
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Perhaps, Milton's England makes the author of the brief epic more severe towards the humanist tradition he has inherited than Elizabethan England does for Spenser.
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The Elizabethan pluralist clergy were able to concentrate their agricultural efforts to good effect.
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And there was the manor, tucked away in this sequestered spot, but noted as a particularly fine Elizabethan gabled mansion – though on a modest scale compared with a great Somerset house like Montacute.
Country diary: Wigborough, Somerset
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Greene's career began in 1583 when he completed an MA at Oxford and published Mamilia, a courtesy book for Elizabethan women, written in the euphuistic style.
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Dante stands in no class at all, nor does Milton, nor does Shelley; and though Shakespeare indulgently permits himself to be classed as an "Elizabethan dramatist," what strikes true critics most is again hardly more his "betterness" than his difference.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Many besides the 'dedicatory' sonnets are addressed to a handsome youth of wealth and rank, for whom the poet avows 'love,' in the Elizabethan sense of friendship.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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What the theater today can show for us realistically, with massive scenery and electric lighting, Elizabethan playgoers had to imagine.
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They were playing some kind of Elizabethan game on the grass and seemed unaware of her curiosity.
SANDS OF TIME
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Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth features the music of John Dowland – a melancholic Elizabethan era composer – and accompaniment from the Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov… A spokesman for the awards, which are produced by the British Phonographic Institute, said the only previous instances of a non-classical artist being nominated were Roger Waters last year and the techno-classicist William Orbit in 2001.
Paul McCartney Wins Classical Brit, Sting Thankfully Doesn’t
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The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity.
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The great house they built may just be ridges in the field to the south-west of the church, but you feel you have met them, Sir Arthur Throckmorton, an Elizabethan squire, and his wife.
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In Elizabethan times the roots were dried and crushed and the powder was mixed with water and used to stiffen the ruffs worn by the gentry.
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In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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The Elizabethan period was the golden age of English drama.
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The Elizabethans did not waste time on detailed discussions of hagiology and doctrine.
We Take Our Stand
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This is comparable to attempting a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Elizabethan phraseology and idiomatic expression in Chinese, while ignoring the relevance of the English language!
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His thin skin moved so rapidly between white and red it resembled the skin of the love object of some minor Elizabethan sonneteer.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Synopsis: An Elizabethan-era censor is visited by a man from the future looking to preserve a seditious play lost to time.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #24 edited by Gardner Dozois
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Corthell concludes that Donne constructs a ‘recusant subject of satire,’ a subject, that is, whose equivocalness is both a response to and a production of the discontinuous discursive formations available to the Elizabethan satirist.
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Euphuism of the Elizabethan age, and of the modern French romanticists, its neologies were the ground of one of the favourite charges against it; though indeed, as regards these tricks of taste also, there is nothing new, but a quaint family likeness rather, between the Euphuists of successive ages.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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What Tuilagi did to Ashton at Welford Road, a modern sporting equivalent of the Elizabethan bear garden, was not to be recommended, especially in an age of high-definition slow-mo replays, multiple camera angles and holier-than-thou hypocrisy masquerading as informed punditry.
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Marlowe and Shakespeare dominated late Elizabethan drama, although they did not monopolize it.
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A Catch or Round of the best type of Elizabethan times consisted of one melody, generally perfectly continuous.
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The Elizabethan period was the golden age of English drama.
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The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion.
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More problematic yet is the all-male cast, which in the Elizabethan theater featured beardless youths plausible in female roles, but here offers adult men inadvertently or, in one case, deliberately, camping.
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The poet archaized her work with many Elizabethan words.
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O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer.
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The first is the extent to which Londoners, by the Elizabethan period at least, were exposed to all manner of highly accessible modes of propaganda and polemic, entertainment and edification.
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We were then directed toward the great hall itself, where Elizabethan music could be heard, and mulled wine was being served.
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The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility.
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A similar story is told in chapter 4, which contrasts Smith's criticism of apprenticeship with the arguments advanced in the debates leading to the 1814 repeal of the apprenticeship clauses of the Elizabethan statute of artificers.
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Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The orpharion and bandora were very popular with lutenists of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods.
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There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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We refer to entire eras in history of the United Kingdom as the Elizabethan age, or the Victorian period.
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For all the fun she has setting up a morally depraved de Vere as the one true Bard, Freed lends support to the conventional storyline: the son of a Stratford glover somehow penetrates the Elizabethan stage world.
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While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience.
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They were playing some kind of Elizabethan game on the grass and seemed unaware of her curiosity.
SANDS OF TIME
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Historically, as Leo Marx has noted, the age of discovery introduced into the Arcadian myth "a note of topographical realism," and, from the Elizabethan era until the late nineteenth century, Europeans tended to view America in Arcadian terms as a vast and unspoiled garden of "'incredible abundance'" (Marx 47, 37-40) .4
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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Converted to an Elizabethan great house following the dissolution of the Monasteries, the abbey has a peaceful atmosphere.
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For that you get to stand in the yard below the stage exposed to the weather - a groundling or stinkard in Elizabethan parlance.
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Shakespeare studies call for a thorough knowledge of a wide spectrum of pre-Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the Elizabethan stage and dramaturgy.
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He tells us, for example, that in the Elizabethan period ‘it was customary for men and women to have sexual congress almost fully clothed’.
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In the longer term, it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism.
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Dr. Fallon forked out which Lady Macbeth asks abnormal energy to take widely separated a delicate inlet which gives her protection, prevalent in Elizabethan culture.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose.
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This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime.
Milton
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It was part of the vocabulary in Elizabethan England (Arthur Miller used it at least once in The Crucible) ..
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In Elizabethan masques, poets, composers, choreographers and scenic designers emulated or simulated the Golden Age, immobilising Time in terpsichorean elegance.
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While not quite up to the neologisitic prowess of a certain wordsmith of the Elizabethan Age, a noted U.S. statesperson has gotten a good deal of notoriety for her contribution to the English language.
Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
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_Academic_ original after Raleigh's consignment to the Tower, -- in that fierce satire into which so much Elizabethan bitterness is condensed, under the difference of the reckless prodigality which is stereotyped in the fable, we get, in the earlier scenes, some glimpses of this
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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The mul - tiple playing areas of the Elizabethan stage, simulta - neous action, multiple motives, and the several levels
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Though Shakespeare was using the word to lampoon the pretentiousness of Elizabethan pedagogues, there was a joy in the cascade of vowels and consonants that beat anything I had heard on television.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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A jakes, of course, was the Elizabethan word for a mouldy toilet.
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This is why monarchs played footsie with pirates in Elizabethan times and no doubt have been doing so ever since.
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Whereas the orderly Everyman respected and obeyed its conventions, the Elizabethans lived - and how they lived!
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It was appropriate that he should end his days in the masculine fastness of an Elizabethan almshouse in London.
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The Tudor wing was constructed in Elizabethan times, and now features various permanent and temporary exhibitions.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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More popular, however, was the Elizabethan or Scottish baronial manner, offering patriotic sentiment without the small windows of the authentic castle.
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The Elizabethan house oozes charm.
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An early music specialist came to my college and we formed a "broken consort" of unlike instruments (lute, bandora, cittern, viola da gamba, and flute,) to rehearse and perform a concert of Elizabethan music.
Shrimplate
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Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things
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Fortunately, the auctioneer recognised its importance and sought expert advice from an authority on Elizabethan instruments.
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Being overparted, as the Elizabethan theatre girls would have said, is something we all experience at one time or another.
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Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
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In Elizabethan England, the public generally regarded playwrights and actors as reprobates and scapegraces; lords and ladies risked their reputations by hobnobbing with dramatists and deuteragonists.
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Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside.
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Spice and fruit breads, similar to hot cross buns, were typical Elizabethan Lenten fare.
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They are seeking to build a faithful recreation of the original Elizabethan theatre.
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I hope your other remarks are not going to be on this level and the English Literature you eulogise (quite correctly) appears to stop with the Elizabethans and before the novel - some mistake surely.
Phillip Shipley MP Wants Union Jack on Mosques
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Will Shakespeare finds himself momentarily lost for words and invents a new one - thingamabob - which instantly becomes all the rage in Elizabethan England.
May 2008
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In Elizabethan times a trifle was made with syllabub (a mixture of fresh milk and sweet wine), Later followed the ‘proper’ custard made with double cream and eggs.
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They are seeking to build a faithful recreation of the original Elizabethan theatre.
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The curious signal No. 218 of 1782 for attacking the enemy's rear in succession by 'defiling' on the Elizabethan plan was also retained.
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
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None of these plants was literally aphrodisiac – what Elizabethan herbalists called 'venereous' – but their seductive scents were more likely to stir Titania up than 'lull' her.
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Sir Francis Drake was a famous Elizabethan.
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The garden, reflecting the Elizabethan fashion, has four courtyards enclosed by high sandstone walls.
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The Hall was a sprawling country house built in Elizabethan times.
THE PERFECT LOVER
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Consequently, Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently.
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Since the Catholic mass was forbidden in late Elizabethan England, accepting the doctrine of transubstantiation necessitated risking considerable penalties.
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Nathalie: One could make a good argument for the Elizabethan partlet being a proto-dickey.
Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day
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Until fairly recently the history of Catholicism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was conceived largely in terms of hagiology.
William Byrd and the Catholics
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Elizabethan theater audiences sat on stage and dialogued with the actors.
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The Elizabethan age was a time of exploration and discovery.
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Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
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The fecundity of Elizabethan language was an extraordinary phenomenon produced by an extraordinary society.
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Both country music lyricists and Elizabethan lyricists emphasize figurative language.
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On the balcony above sit five versatile musicians who provide occasional mood elevations to the action in composer Nigel Hess 'clever pseudo-Elizabethan score.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
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Bussy's invectives against courtly practices (I, i, 84-104) and hypocrisy in high places (III, ii, 25-59), while the "flyting" between him and Monsieur is perhaps the choicest specimen of Elizabethan
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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Out-of-doors, well-to-do Elizabethans wore two pairs of shoes, an inner slipper and the outer shoe (pantofle), which required some practice to keep on while walking.
