Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the ...

Elizabeth I was a Tudor monarch who ruled England from 1558 - 1603. Despite her long reign, Elizabeth was never expected to become queen. She was last in line to the throne of all of Henry VIII’s ...

One of the exhibit’s curators, Adam Eaker of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, sums it up as “the Tudor art of the gift.” For Elizabeth, this began even before she became queen in 1558.

The Tudors ruled for just 118 years, but their drama, power plays and religious upheaval still captivate usPat MurphyWatching the BBC’s excellent adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, I was struck ...

The latest book by prolific Tudor historian Elizabeth Norton is as much about the political machinations of the Seymours and their friends and enemies as it is about the rumored romantic ...

PAIGE MARTIN REYNOLDS, George Peele and the Judgment of Elizabeth I, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, No. 2, Tudor and Stuart Drama (SPRING 2010), pp. 263-279 ...

In a famous, frequently quoted statement, Ben Jonson claims that Queen Elizabeth I “had a membrana on her which made her uncapable of man.” This essay reinvestigates the basis for Jonson’s ...

From teenage princess to accomplished queen, forever torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in this lavish four-part drama, filmed against a backdrop of some ...