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2 unusual facts about Elizabethan era


Alexander Balloch Grosart

He is chiefly remembered for reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a work which he undertook because of his interest in Puritan theology.

Giacomo di Grassi

The translation of Di Grassi was one of the three premiere fencing texts known from Elizabethan England.


Bevil Grenville

Grenville was born near Withiel, west of Bodmin, Cornwall, the son of Sir Bernard Grenville by his wife Elizabeth Bevil, and was a grandson of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the heroic Elizabethan naval captain, explorer, and soldier.

David Lidington

Lidington was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; he took an honours degree in History and a doctorate for research on Elizabethan history.

Elizabethan Lizard

Their artistic aesthetic focuses mainly on a comical mixture of Elizabethan era clothing and Reptiles.

Henri Fluchère

He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines.

Martin Peerson

The only four extant keyboard pieces – "Alman", "The Fall of the Leafe", "Piper's Paven" and "The Primerose" – appear in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (c. 1609 – c. 1619), one of the most important sources of early keyboard music containing more than 300 pieces from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.


see also

Mathew Roydon

In Deborah Harkness's novel Shadow of Night, the vampire Matthew Clairmont is revealed to, in the Elizabethan era, be (a fictionalised version of) Matthew Roydon of the School of Night.

Rhyme royal

The seven-line stanza began to go out of fashion during the Elizabethan era but it was still used by John Davys in Orchestra and by William Shakespeare in The Rape of Lucrece.

The Miller's Daughter

Fair Em or Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, Elizabethan era stage play