Elisabethan

People are most familiar with his dystopian sci-fi novels Lord of this World and Dawn of All, but he also wrote historical fiction about the Elisabethan Settlement, which seem to be familar themes.

Ask the LP 2008

It's help - ful to recall that other Elisabethan giant, Ben Jonson, one of Shakespeare's ardent but not fawning admirers.

The Bard Bytes Dust, by Charles Burress 1986

The life is primitive and the language is Elisabethan.

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

_Lycidas_, in like manner, was the perfection of the Elisabethan {153} pastoral elegy.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Something of the Elisabethan style still clings to them; but their grave sweetness, their choice wording, their originality in epithet, name, and phrase, were novelties of Milton's own.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The Elisabethan age proper closed with the death of the queen, and the accession of James I., in 1603, but the literature of the fifty years following was quite as rich as that of the half-century that had passed since she came to the throne, in 1557.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

It is common to speak of Shakspere and the other Elisabethan dramatists as if they stood, in some sense, on a level.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The disguise of a woman in man's apparel is a common incident in the romantic drama; and the fact, that on the Elisabethan stage the female parts were taken by boys, made the deception easier.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

_Comus_, which belongs to the same period, was the perfection of the Elisabethan court masque, and was presented at Ludlow Castle in 1634, on the occasion of the installation of the Earl of Bridgewater as Lord President of Wales.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

In masque, elegy, and sonnet, he set the seal to the Elisabethan poetry, said the last word, and closed one great literary era.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886