The Elizabethan Age was also an age of plots and conspiracies, frequently political in nature and often involving the highest levels of Elizabethan society.

Elizabethan society feared homosexual desire, but embraced heterosexual conquests.

Rebellious women were a concern for Englishmen because they posed a threat to the patriarchal model of a good household upon which Elizabethan society was built.

In Elizabethan society, a woman of age was expected to become a wife.

My model in reading Spenser is based on assumptions that these texts act as types of cultural registers, they provide indications about how Elizabethan society characterised itself.

(For more about the role of the fool in Elizabethan society, see "The Author and His Times" section of this book.)

Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady, 'Come live with me and be my love'.

Sugar was new to Elizabethan society and very much in fashion, so many of the book's recipes use it.

Jesters occupied a special place in Elizabethan society.

Therefore the pale complexion was associated with wealth and nobility, making this makeup popular among Elizabethan society.