英语词汇elizabethan age的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Elizabethan Age. The era when Queen Elizabeth of England reigned (1558–1603) was a vital one of great accomplishments in literature, poetry, drama, architecture, exploration, com- merce, and many other areas. Elizabethan is used as an adjec- tive to describe both the Elizabethan spirit—adventurous, viv- id, eloquent, artistically brilliant, and generous, among nu- merous admirable qualities—and its counterparts today. Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Francis Drake, and Walter Raleigh were only a few of the giant figures pro- duced in the 45-year period that Elizabeth ruled. Though “Good Queen Bess” was certainly vain, capricious, and jealous—for example, she had put to death her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and their favorite, the earl of Essex—her per- sonal courage and sense of responsibility made the last of the Tudors one of England’s greatest rulers and probably the great- est queen in history. The only daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded for alleged adultery, Elizabeth was an intelligent, well-educated woman whose court became the center of England’s cultural life as it had never been before and has never been since. “There will never be a queen,” she once told Parliament, “sit in my seat with more zeal to my country and care to my subjects. And though you have had and may have princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had or shall have any that will be more careful and loving.” She died in 1603, having lived a biblical three score and 10.

词汇	elizabethan age
词源	Elizabethan Age. The era when Queen Elizabeth of England reigned (1558–1603) was a vital one of great accomplishments in literature, poetry, drama, architecture, exploration, com- merce, and many other areas. Elizabethan is used as an adjec- tive to describe both the Elizabethan spirit—adventurous, viv- id, eloquent, artistically brilliant, and generous, among nu- merous admirable qualities—and its counterparts today. Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Francis Drake, and Walter Raleigh were only a few of the giant figures pro- duced in the 45-year period that Elizabeth ruled. Though “Good Queen Bess” was certainly vain, capricious, and jealous—for example, she had put to death her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and their favorite, the earl of Essex—her per- sonal courage and sense of responsibility made the last of the Tudors one of England’s greatest rulers and probably the great- est queen in history. The only daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded for alleged adultery, Elizabeth was an intelligent, well-educated woman whose court became the center of England’s cultural life as it had never been before and has never been since. “There will never be a queen,” she once told Parliament, “sit in my seat with more zeal to my country and care to my subjects. And though you have had and may have princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had or shall have any that will be more careful and loving.” She died in 1603, having lived a biblical three score and 10.
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