... the facts we have. He composed his plays during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England from 1558 to 1603, and during the early part of the reign of her cousin James VI of Scotland, who took England's throne as James I after Elizabeth's death in 1603. During this period ... The spirit of this time is often reflected in its secular songs and consort music. This was also a time when music became more of a part of artistic and literary life. The English playwright William Shakespeare utilized music in the form of popular songs and well-known ballads in his plays. Not ... in the pl...

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... that the sun is the center of the solar system that was in 1512 the Church of England broke with the Roman papacy and proclaimed king Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church. The social classes that dominated the Renaissance nobility were occupying over kings, clergy or church, the bourgeoisie these ... Richard II, dream of a summer night King John, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the flower. In 1597 first and second parts of Henry IV and Henry V. In 1599 wrote the merry-Widsor, much ado about nothing. In 1600 he wrote twelfth night as you please. In 1602 he wrote a good ... kno...

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