Corruption In The Elizabethan Era

Working Thesis: Shakespeare managed to talk about many touchy political subjects through his plays without offending the Queen. In the Elizabethan era speaking anything ill of the government would lead to the person being hung or imprisoned. Shakespeare accomplishes this by putting the Tudor family in a positive light, which pleased the queen but he still revealed the corruption in the government to his audience.
Cull, Nicholas J. "Shakespeare, William." Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present, Nicholas John Cull, et al., ABC-CLIO, 2003.
This is another great source that talks about how Shakespeare regularly attended courts for slandering the royal name. Nicholas Cull is another credible source because he is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Cull went to Princeton University and University of Leeds. He is well versed in …show more content…
The Reference Library talks about how Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the tower of London and later sentenced to death. During his time in the tower, Raleigh had time to study and write books. King James postponed the death sentence and order Raleigh to travel to Spain in search for gold. When Spain found out Raleigh was taking Spanish gold they demanded England to kill Raleigh for piracy, but King James said that he can’t kill Walter Raleigh because the first death sentence was still valid. This source is credible because I found several other resources that refer to the Elizabethan Reference Library and they specialize on information during the Elizabethan era. While this story is very interesting, it won’t be beneficial in my essay. However, I can still use this Elizabethan World Reference Library for more information about specific events within the royal