Charles I of England

sophistication and literary skill to have written plays that are considered the most important works of literature in English. In the course of this debate, scholars have put forward many contenders as the “real author” of the plays, Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe. The most recent candidate for the “real author” title is Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Oxfordian scholars, as they are called, believe that de Vere had the education, political connections and…

Initially, the people of Rome did not want Cleopatra as a queen after Julius Caesar died. Cleopatra wanted to take over Rome after Caesar died, but the people would not let her do that and forced her to flee. The Romans did not want a queen in power especially Cleopatra. Cleopatra was a ruler alongside her twin brother in Egypt, when Caesar came over from Rome to answer a dying wish of her father to look after the two and make sure everything is going well. Caesar brought her back to Rome as his…

Cnut held the reign of King of England from 1016 to 1035. He was a Danish prince and can be regarded as being part of the Viking invasions in the Northeast of England. After becoming King, he took Emma, former wife of Aethelred the Unready., as his wife, and began to consolidate his empire. He had control over Denmark, Norway, and England during his reign. In looking at the laws Cnut created and his letter to his empire, it can be seen that Cnut put the importance of his Christian religion as…

A hundred year of the war, with no rest and peace. That was what King Charles VII was facing while trying to keep his country, France together. In all that misery, a customary girl saw the mistreatment the nation was facing and she was ready to fight for justice. King Charles VII saw no lighter and gave her what she was asking for, armor, horse and a group of soldiers. That girl was Joan of Arc, an eighteen-year-old girl that had a dream of peace and justice. With her passion, she defeated the…

Mary I Tudor is born into the Catholic household of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon on February 18th, 1516. She is the only child of this marriage to survive infancy, and thus she is treated with great reverence from a young age. Mary is raised as a devout Catholic by her mother Catherine, and is extensively tutored in a diverse array of subjects. Mary’s diverse tutelage is due in part to her mother 's misfortune in not being able to produce a male heir. Catherine realizes that…

was seen as such. This level of engrained iconography would not be present again until the reign of Henry VIII’s second wife’s daughter, Elizabeth I. When Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne, she was succeeding an unsuccessful regime led by her half-sister Mary I. Flattery was a key purpose of royal portraiture at the time and considering how Mary I was thought of as a failure, the two sisters were not compatible, and that Elizabeth represented contrast,…

that Queen Elizabeth wrote quite a bit of poetry under her own name (Wheeler). Furthermore, the “stigma of print” that many “anti-Stratfordians” argue was the reason many aristocratic authors used fake names simply did not exist in the Elizabethan England. In reference to a well-known book about Shakespeare’s authorship entitled Contested Will, James Shapiro suggests that, if a nervous aristocratic author did not wish to be identified, they he could have done nothing and let their play reach…

Sphere of Influence When Elizabeth 1 became queen of England, she understood the importance of controlling the way she was portrayed. With this control in her hands. Elizabeth created a mythical image of herself that subjects embraced also glorified. Elizabeth wasn’t just the queen, she was a great artist, but more importantly, her strong personality influenced along with inspired the arts, including the culture of England to reach new heights. Elizabeth became the Imperial Votaress in the…

Disease during the Elizabethan time Era had a major impact on people and their lives. In that era there were tremendously terrible diseases such as the Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, and Typhoid that killed almost around the third of the population. From a disease standpoint that was arguably the worst time in history because of all of the illnesses being spread around. There was no type of cure for most of the diseases so some people had to suffer. If they were lucky then they survived but…

There is reason to believe that William Shakespeare, possibly the greatest writer in the English language, could be a fraud. Even though his name is signed on the collection of works, researchers and analysts have gathered information over the years that opens our eyes to the facts that he was simply unqualified to be the author of this extensive collection of literature. Many have found that Francis Bacon is a much better candidate to claim authorship of these works. Not only did he have…