Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen Elizabeth The princess Elizabeth was born at Greenwich in September 7th, 1533 and was crowned Queen Elizabeth I of England in January 1559 . Her parents were King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was one of greatest queen in England, a bright star who sparkled both the nation and the world. The achievement of Queen Elizabeth has lasted nearly four centuries and it’s easy to see why. She reigned for 45 tumultuous year, the Spanish Armada was defeated by her ships in her time. The fleet was…

famous inspirational speeches in the career of the Queen Elizabeth I. The purpose of the speech was to inspire the troops who will battle against Spain. King Philip, who was married to Queen Mary, had proposed to Queen Elizabeth, who kindly declined, later on he was driven to have the English crown through Mary Queen of Scots who subsequently was executed by Queen Elizabeth. It was decided that Spain would somehow invade England 1587. Furthermore, Queen Elizabeth sought inspiration to motivate…

At last Elizabeth was made queen, but just like any ruler, she had issues arise. One of the issues Elizabeth faced was that she was unmarried and still a virgin. Her nickname up until this day is still The Virgin Queen. This created a problem, because she was the last of the Tudor dynasty. So if she did not produce an heir to the throne, her family’s reign would be over. Elizabeth had many suitors after her hand in marriage. Some of which included King of Spain, Sir William Pickering, John…

favour of women’s independence were insufficient for some women, particularly Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. During her reign in Scotland, Mary faced many barriers that subjected her to criticism and placed her in Elizabeth I’s shadow for much of history. In her poetry, Mary reacts to the obstacles she faced as a woman, as a queen, and as a threat to Elizabeth I’s succession to the throne. In her Sonnets to Bothwell, Mary rejects binary constraints of the English Renaissance court despite its…

“I Know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king!” Queen Elizabeth I the only daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, received a first class education in literature. Elizabeth had also received an education of politics in England that was not much interesting to her. She had the parliament question her birth which led her to serving time in prison. At Woodstock, the princess wrote poetry, which later became famous. At the age of twenty-five Elizabeth…

authors have written about the same time period, but from different perspectives. One of those significant events in history was the Spanish Armada. The Spanish Armada was a fleet of Spanish ships that sailed towards England in 1588, to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England. The Armada written by Garret Mattingly and published by Houghton Miffin Company in 1959, gives us a detailed explanation all about the Spanish Armada. Garret…

What do you understand by the term ‘historiographic metafiction’? Apply this concept to TWO of the texts from weeks 2-8 and consider how historic fiction operates through the gap between the event and the fact. The term historiographic metafiction as Patrica Waugh notes is “fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality” are both intensely self-reflexive and yet…

young Queen Elizabeth I rose to power in 1558. Women in this time period had to meet society’s standards by marrying for power and wealth, or they would be frowned upon by peers and exposed to the accusations of witchcraft (“Elizabethan Women”). They were considered property. To set an empowering example, Queen Elizabeth I rose from her family’s past detrimental marriages and “married” England instead of a husband to avoid repeating the same mistakes of her predecessors King Henry VIII and Mary…

place should Edward die and Mary be proclaimed queen as Henry VIII’s will declared. The lack of time caused a significant problem for Northumberland as it posed a crisis because he was unable to ensure Lady Jane Grey’s succession took place. Without legal force, there was a clear decent into crisis as the Protestant succession was no longer secure. Northumberland’s non-existent planning and delayed reaction (such as waiting for three days before proclaiming Lady Jane Grey queen) is an example of…

Klaus was never the kind of boyfriend to force you to do anything, let alone turn into a vampire for him so that the both of you can spend eternity together. And after three years of loving each other through thick and thin, you decided it's time to change your life forever. It's not that you didn't want to become a vampire earlier, it's just that life in New Orleans when associated with the infamous Original family was quite chaotic. There just wasn't any time to even think about it. But now…