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Elizabethan Britain: 1558–1603
UK · 1558–1603 · exact time + place
The vibrant and tumultuous era under Queen Elizabeth I — flourishing arts including Shakespeare's plays, bold sea voyages, and the dramatic defense against the Spanish Armada. The button below opens StoryTerra with both the UK and 1558–1603 already set.
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Browse 47 books, 9 movies and 1 game set in United Kingdom.
Shakespeare in Love
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds…
Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
Legacy
Illusions shatter—and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices—in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster wants answers. But…
Anonymous
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex Rebellion against her the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
King Henry IV, Part 1
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history…
The Riverside Shakespeare
The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two…
Orlando
England 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando a young nobleman obsessed with poetry that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Henry IV, Part 2
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy…
Legacy
The first of seven brand new 39 clues stories, leading up to one explosive reveal.Time is running out for Grace Cahill as she struggles to make the most important choice of her life: a decision that will shape the…
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