An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about William Shakespeare's London including such topics as: Why London? What was London like? What were the city's landmarks? and Where did Shakespeare live and work...

This website takes a look at Ben Jonson's masques that he composed. It provides a couple as examples and dissects them to try to give better insight to Jonson's writing.

Learn more about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre by exploring nine context links: William Shakespeare, London, Special Effects, The Third Globe, The Globe, Playhouses, Audiences, Indoor Theatres, and Writing Plays.

This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Forham University provides a brief biography of Jonson and an excerpt by Jonson on Lord Francis Bacon.

This site is provided for by Bartelby.com. Marlowe's characteristics of style, as critics put it, is the use of the persistent hyperbole, weak construction, no woman limitation, humourless.

This resource provides some insight to Lord Chamberlain's Men, some of which have links for more information.

Article examines the treatment of Catholics during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

John Jewel (May 24, 1522 - September 23, 1571), was an English bishop of Salisbury. Under Elizabeth's succession he returned to England, and made earnest efforts to secure what would now be called a low-church settlement of religion; he...

This site is a portal to biographical information about the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney, texts of his works, articles and essays about his works, and a list of other resources.

Full text of sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the Elizabethan poet.

A map of Ireland from the ascension of Queen Elizabeth (1558) to the end of the Cromwellian conquest and the Act for the Settlement of Ireland (1652). This map is color-coded to show the territories of the expanded English Pale, the...

(1552-1559) English poet of the Elizabethan age.

(1540-1596) An English privateer, navigator, politician, and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era.

(1540-1506) Elizabethan seaman that fought in the Spanish Armada.

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - 27 January 1595) was an English privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded Drake knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English...

(1552-1618) English navigator and writer during the Elizabethan period. While imprisoned he wrote The History of the World

This lesson plan teaches some basic facts about Elizabeth I's early life and provides information about her painted portraits.

This biographical resource for Queen Elizabeth I can help students collecting background information or for use in classroom discussion and assignments.