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Macbeth: 12th Grade English: Queen Elizabeth and the Arts

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Shakespeare Research Presentation Assignment

Queen Elizabeth and the Arts

Queen Elizabeth and the Arts

Use this list of questions to guide the creation of your PPT slides.  Synthesize the information provided for you on this page to answer the questions.

  • What evidence do we have that Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the arts?
  • What does it mean to be a patron of the arts?
  • What is the relationship between the long and relatively stable reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the development of literature & art in Elizabethan England?  

Optional print sources

A History of the Elizabethan Theater

by Adam Woog

  • Explore Chapter 6: pps. 70-71

Queen Elizabeth I

George Gower. The Plimpton "Sieve" Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, DC, 1579. Oil on panel.

Helpful websites

Folger Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare: Queen Elizabeth I

Database articles

Bloom's Literature:

Elizabeth I of England 

  • Pay attention to the last paragraph of this article

Gale World History in Context:

The Arts in the Elizabethan World

Bibliography

Works Cited

“The Arts in the Elizabethan World.” Elizabethan World Reference Library, edited by Sonia G. Benson and Jennifer York Stock, vol. 1: Almanac, UXL, 2007, pp. 141-161. World History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX2587000019/WHIC?u=spri48590_e&xid=aa9e3ab1. Accessed 17 Jan. 2018.

Diede, Martha Kalnin. “Elizabeth I of England.” The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600, Facts On File, 2008. Bloom’s Literature, online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/10174?q=Elizabeth I of England OR Elizabeth I of England. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

Gower, George. The Plimpton “Sieve” Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. 1579. Folger Shakespeare Library, luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~29241~102094:The-Plimpton--Sieve--portrait-of-Qu. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

“Queen Elizabeth I.” Folger Shakespeare Library, www.folger.edu/queen-elizabeth-i. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

Shakespeare: Queen Elizabeth I. The Kennedy Center, 2007. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLg-ziZg2fc. Accessed 18 Jan. 2018.

Woog, Adam. A History of the Elizabethan Theater. Lucent Books, 2003.