Description The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history.
There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death), and it was a period of international expansion and naval triumph over the Spanish.
It was also a period of internal peace following the violent upheaval of the Protestant reformation.
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