Elizabeth the 1st
...e and gargantuan ship named the Elizabeth Jones. The nations financial recovery was advanced, during her reign. Commerce also increased along with the global exploration and expansion, all helped by Elizabeth’s abhorrence of war and parsimony. Queen Elizabeth I even formed her own dramatic company Queen Elizabeth’s Men. In 1594 Lord Chamberland’s Men were formed. At that time William Shakespeare was just now becoming known and starting to be popular in the theatre. Shakespeare will later be known for some of the best thought out and well-known plays in the world and throughout history. Queen Elizabeth I died 1603. James VI of Scotland then succeeded her. He became James I because of his role as King of England. He later issued William Shakespeare his very own royal license and also gave one to all his fellow player’s, personally from King James I. The men constantly performed for the King and often did musicals on a regular basis for return of the license. The Elizabethan Age is what most of Shakespeare’s works reflected culturally, socially, and politically. For example Shakespeare used ghosts, witches, and magicians very effectively in his works, which Elizabethan’s believed in highly. In the plays Richard III, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet ghost’s played a major role. In Elizabeth society Shakespeare’s plays reflect the shifts from optimism to pessimism. All his early plays like Romeo and Juliet all have difference’s that separate them from the later works. Shakespeare’s works started to show the gloomy society after the 1600’s. He wrote his greatest tragedies during this period. Even his comedies like All’s well that ends well and Measure for Measure have a bitter part that wasn’t found in earlier plays. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. / They kill us for their sport.” As a character from King Lear cries out in despair. Uncertainties of the time as well as the Uncertainties of a particular dramatic situation affect the views and the way these lines were written. Elizabethan’s were extremely sens...