Queen Elizabeth the 1st and her influence on English literature Elizabeth the 1st was the last Tudor monarch. She was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and hid second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became a queen in November 1588, succeeding to the throne on her half sister death.
She was very well educated, intelligent, determined, and shrewd.
She died in Richmond palace on 24 March 1603. The date of her accession was a national holiday for two hundred years.
England saw many great voyages of discovery at the time of Elizabeth 1st reign. The expeditions were especially to America and they prepared England to an age of settlement and trade development.
The Elizabethan period was the golden age of the English literature. Many famous writers began to write. What was the influence of Elizabeth the 1st on the English literature? The monarchy in England is a tradition of thousands of years. Each king and queen had influenced the history of England. Some of them were retworriers and brought great victories to England. Others changed significantly people’s life. The time of Elizabeth 1st reign was the golden age of English literature. Who was Elizabeth 1st? How did she influence the flowering of English literature? Elizabeth thought that literature and culture is very important. She encouraged poets and even wrote poems herself (Elizabeth’s poem is attached in the appendix). The fact that Elizabeth was a poet herself, made the poets think, that literature is important to the queen and writing more plays and poems will make them more appreciated by the queen. Being a poet at the Elizabethan time was a good work. People appreciated literary life. This situation created competition between the poets of this time. This competition made poets write more and more poems and plays. They tried to write more interesting and new poems. The poets just wanted to be more famous and appreciated. For example: William Shakespeare, maybe he most popular poet of the medieval time started his way at the Elizabethan time. Shakespeare was a stockholder and an actor in a popular acting company. He also wrote about two plays a year for them. At 1594 he wrote at least six plays that had already been produced. In 1599 Shakespeare and six other men bought a theatre named The Globe, which was one of the biggest theatres in England. Shakespeare wasn’t the only poet who became known at the Elizabethan time. Edmund Spenser, another famous poet and writer published his first books at the Elizabethan time, and became known as many other famous poets. After the theaters became under control of the government (the queen) many public theatres were built. Two of them (The Globe and the Fortune) were the most important theatres of this time. Many actors started to act because there were many theatres to act in them, the acting became legal profession, and acting was a good job because the aristocracy loved theatres. All this reasons created a situation that poets and writers needed to write plays for the acting companies who built the theaters. Conclusion
·Elizabeth thought that literature and culture is very important. She encouraged poets and even wrote poems herself
·Being a poet at the Elizabethan time was a good work. People appreciated literary life.
·After the theaters became under control of the government (the queen) many public theatres were built