By Brandon Pyle and Logan O’bryan

 “A countenance more in sorrow than anger.”  “A fool’s paradise.”  “All of a sudden.”  “A sorry sight.”  “All’s well that ends well.”  “As dead as a doornail.”  “But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”

 1588 – English Navy defeats the Spanish Armada.  London Theater is closed because of bubonic plague.  1599 – The Globe Theater is built.  1600 – First production of Julius Ceaser.  1603 – Queen Elizabeth dies.  1604 – First performance of Othello.  1644 – Globe Theater demolished by the Puritans.

 Women could not act in plays; if there was a woman’s role, it was played by a man.  Women could not enter professions, but could do domestic work.  Women could not vote.  Society was patriarchal.

 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe.  Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic.  The abandoned colony Roanoke Island was established in  William Gilbert published his seminal study on magnetism, De Magnete, in 1600.

 Queen Elizabeth  William Shakespeare  Francis Bacon  Sir Francis Drake  Walter Raleigh  John Dee  Mary Queen of Scots

 John Lyly ( Euphues and His Anatomy of Wit )  William Shakespeare ( Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, etc)  Edmund Spenser ( The Faerie Queene )  Christopher Marlowe ( The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus )