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The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, which lasted from 1558–1603, and is often considered to be a golden age in England's history. It was the height of the English Renaissance, and saw the flowering of English literature and poetry. This was also the time of the playwright William Shakespeare who, among others, composed plays that broke away from England's past style.

The Elizabethan age is viewed so highly in part because of the contrasts with the periods before and after. It was a brief period of largely internal peace between the English Reformation and the battles between Protestants and Catholics and the battles between parliament and the monarchy that would engulf the seventeenth century. The Protestant/Catholic divide was settled, for a time, by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and parliament was still too weak to challenge royal absolutism.

England was also well-off compared to the other nations of Europe. The Italian Renaissance had come to an end under the weight of foreign domination of the peninsula. France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes. In part because of this, but also because the English had been expelled from their last outposts on the continent, the centuries long conflict between France and England was suspended during the Elizabethan era.

The one great rival was Spain, with which England conflicted both in Europe and the Americas in skirmishes that exploded into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604. An attempt by Philip II of Spain to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated. The tide of war turned against England with an unsuccessful attack on Spain in 1589. After that Spain provided some support for Irish Catholics in a draining guerrilla war against England. Spanish naval and land forces inflicted a series of defeats upon English forces, which badly damaged the economy that until then had been so carefully restored under Elizabeth's guidance.

England during this period had a centralized, well organized, and effective government, largely a result of the reforms of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Economically the country began to benefit greatly from the new era of Atlantic trade.

Modern historians and biographers in post-imperial Europe have tended to take a far more literal-minded and dispassionate view of the Tudor period. Elizabethan England was not particularly successful in a military sense during the period. The economic well being of the country has also been called into question. The Elizabethan era also saw England begin to play a leading role in the slave trade and saw a series of bloody English military campaigns in still Catholic Ireland—notably the Desmond Rebellions and the Nine Years War.

Despite the heights achieved during the era, less than 40 years after the death of Elizabeth the country was to descend into the English Civil War.

Elizabethan court fashion was heavily influenced by Spanish and French styles. Notable garments of this period include the farthingale for women, military styles for men, and ruffs for both sexes. The Elizabethan era also saw a great flowering of domestic embroidery for both clothing and furnishings.

The food of this time period includes lear (an oatmeal like dish with peas or beans), all types of animal meat, and numerous types of fruits and vegetables.

• Ben Jonson
• Christopher Marlowe
• Edmund Spenser
• Francis Bacon
• Francis Drake
• Francis Walsingham
• John Dee
• Richard Grenville
• Sir Philip Sidney
• Thomas Kyd
• Thomas North
• Walter Raleigh
• William Shakespeare

-From Wikipedia