Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembered for its science: Galileo exploring gravity and the solar system, Descartes developing modern philosophy and Newton discovering the laws of motion and calculus. And the 16th will be remembered for the flourishing of the arts and culture: Michelangelo and Leonardo and Shakespeare creating masterpieces, Elizabeth I creating the Elizabethan...
...love his yacht and Elizabethan manor home in Cheshire, near Iceland's North Wales base, but Walker is also fond of his organic garden. "I want to leave a world at least as good as it is now to my children," he says. It's a platitude in the mouths of most, but from Walker, it's a mission he tries to fulfill. --By Helen Gibson/North Wales
...sexual, feelings. If she thinks Shakespeare's descriptions of his male friend sound a little too intimate to be non-sexual, she should remember that these were not Shakespeare's personal letters, but were openly read and accepted by many of his contemporaries in straight-laced, sexually repressed Elizabethan England...
...sexual, feelings. If she thinks Shakespeare's descriptions of his male friend sound a little too intimate to be non-sexual, she should remember that these were not Shakespeare's personal letters, but were openly read and accepted by many of his contemporaries in straight-laced, sexually repressed Elizabethan England...
...from displays of passion between his lovers on stage, for all of the lewdness of "I Get No Kick from Campaign," there is not one kiss between any one of the musical's couples. Audiences at The Rose anticipated these displays of compassion to solidify the storys plot--in Elizabethan England, that the kiss was between two men, with one dressed as a woman, was inconsequential...