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Definition of Elizabethan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen. "Elizabethan music"
2. Noun. A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I. "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"
Definition of Elizabethan
1. a. Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
Definition of Elizabethan
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elizabethan
Literary usage of Elizabethan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"THE literary temper of elizabethan England was distinguished a splendid vitality
... The powerful individuality of elizabethan literature is unmistakable, ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The subject- matter of the elizabethan lyric is mainly limited to amorous emotion
... Indeed one of the most voluble and honey-tongued of elizabethan poets, ..."
3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1900)
"INTRODUCTION I. THE elizabethan HABIT OF SPEECH IN order to read Shakespeare with
ease and enjoyment, we must get into the way of taking certain things for ..."
4. The Bookman (1911)
"Dr. Klein, we fancy, has given his own * Literary Criticism from the elizabethan
Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis. By David Klein, Ph.D. With an ..."
5. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1904)
"Tennyson has admirably characterised the special distinction of the elizabethan
age by a single epithet, "The spacious times of great Elizabeth. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"Lyrics from the Song-books of the elizabethan Age; More Lyrics from the Song-books
of the elizabethan Age; and Poems from Romances and Prose Tracts of the ..."
7. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN THE elizabethan DRAMA.1 BY HW HERRINGTON. ... As a group,
they fall relatively late in the elizabethan period (Shad- well's, indeed, ..."
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