Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

The Elizabethan era in the 16th century was one of adventure, intrigue, personalities, plots and power struggles. At the centre was Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The Virgin Queen’ and the latter part of ...

of letters saved the Elizabethan dramatists from the unpardonable fault of dullness," said T.S. Eliot '10, this year's incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, in summing up his ...