During Renaissance period, what did Queen Elizabeth have to do with it ?

Question

In my essay, I have to write about the Queen. Her early life, achievements and legacy. Would you please advice me? Also, may you help me with the 3 specified?

Answer 1

Very little actually.

Honestly, if I were to write an essay about QE I and the Renaissance, I think my thesis was that she was just in the right place at the right time. She actually did very little to help England and what occurred was more a function of world-wide conditions than it was any policy she enforced on her own.

Answer 2

The English Renaissance began largely under Elizabeth I, due to the relative stability which came with her reign.

http://elizabethan.org/

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth the 1st was a Patroness of the Arts helping to spread writing & stageplays by generous gifts to individuals & groups. Largely this was for entertainment at Court but it served the purpose of keeping musicians and writers and actors employed as well as showcasing their talents. Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of a man who wrote songs and played musical instruments and as a child it was instilled in Elizabeth to do the same. She was an accomplished player on an instrument called the Virginal as well as the Lute.

And people didn't just hang out at Courth and pick their noses. Elizabeth was able to speak well and converse in Italian & French as well as Latin, and her Court was a life panoply of people discussing the Classics of Greek and Latin Literature as well as recent works such as the writings of Dante and more recent writer such as John Milton.

Queen Elizabeth I had much to do with the Renaissance though certain of us Brit Snobs dub her reigh as Elizabethan rather than that Italian word. Queen Elizabeth encouraged education for men & women, approved of schemes to teach children even those from the poorer classes. In Elizabeth's eyes if one could read the English Book of Common Prayer they would be more aware of the Majesty of God.

Here are afew links and bits beware one or two have annoying pop up/in ads which is sick, true history sites should be free from such muck.
http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/pastimes/
"""The Elizabethans loved music, and Elizabeth was no exception. She was a skilled musician and played the virginals and the lute. She enjoyed musical entertainments, encouraged musicians and composers, and was especially fond of dancing. She would dance the difficult and demanding dance, The Galliard, every morning to keep herself fit. She also loved to dance with her courtiers, and was fond of The Volta. In this dance, the ladies elegantly jumped high in the air, although not everyone believed it was elegant, as some people thought it was disgraceful as the women showed their knees. Robert Dudley also loved to dance, and he and Elizabeth danced as well together as they rode. A dance was even named after him, “The Leicester Dance”. As she got older and could not dance as much as she used to, Elizabeth enjoyed watching her ladies dance. Elizabeth also liked to sing and reputedly sang well.
Elizabeth was also a patron of arts and literature, and loved watching plays, masques, and other dramatic performances. She had her own company of actors, called “The Queen's Players”, and these would often perform plays for her and her courtiers. Robert Dudley also had his own company, and he would pay them to perform before the Queen.
Elizabeth was also an incredibly gifted scholar, and loved learning. She reputedly would often study for two or three hours a day, and was well read in the Classics, as well as having a very extensive knowledge of history. Her skill for languages meant that she could read books in Latin or French, and especially as she grew older, she loved to translate Classic works into English. She also liked to write poetry, and a few of her poems still survive. ""
http://www.elizabethi.org/us/pastimes/poems.htm
"" Two Poems by Queen Elizabeth I
On Monsieur's Departure
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.

My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love ere meant.

Queen Elizabeth's most famous, and perhaps most accomplished, poem.
It is popularly known as "On Monsieur's Departure", but there is no evidence
to connect it with the deapture from England of the Queen's last political suitor,
Francis, Duke of Alencon.

Now Leave And Let Me Rest
Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content-
Go choose among the best; my doting days be spent.
By sundry signs I see thy proffers are but vain,
And wisdom warneth me that pleasure asketh pain;
And Nature that doth know how time her steps doth try,
Gives place to painful woe, and bids me learn to die.

Since all fair earthly things, soon ripe, will soon be rot
And all that pleasant springs, soon withered, soon forgot,
And youth that yields men joys that wanton lust desires
In age repents the toys that reckless youth requires.
All which delights I leave to such as folly trains
By pleasures to deceive, till they do feel the pains.
And from vain pleasures past I fly, and fain would know
The happy life at last whereto I hope to go.
For words or wise reports ne yet examples gone
'Gan bridle youthful sports, till age came stealing on.
The pleasant courtly games that I do pleasure in,
My elder years now shames such folly to begin.
And all the fancies strange that fond delight brought forth
I do intend to change, and count them nothing worth.
For I by proffers vain am taught to know the skill
What might have been forborne in my young reckless will;
By which good proof I fleet from will to wit again,
In hope to set my feet in surety to remain. ""

http://www.virtualology.com/hallofexplorers/QUEENELIZABETHI.COM/
"""Elizabeth's reign also saw many brave voyages of discovery, including those of Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and Humphrey Gilbert, particularly to the Americas. These expeditions prepared England for an age of colonisation and trade expansion, which Elizabeth herself recognised by establishing the East India Company in 1600.

The arts flourished during Elizabeth's reign. Country houses such as Longleat and Hardwick Hall were built, miniature painting reached its high point, theatres thrived - the Queen attended the first performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The image of Elizabeth's reign is one of triumph and success. The Queen herself was often called 'Gloriana', 'Good Queen Bess' and 'The Virgin Queen'. Investing in expensive clothes and jewellery (to look the part, like all contemporary sovereigns), she cultivated this image by touring the country in regional visits known as 'progresses', often riding on horseback rather than by carriage. Elizabeth made at least 25 progresses during her reign. """

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