Golden Age Research Paper

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Why the Elizabethan Age was Called “Golden Age” ?

Elizabethan age was named after Queen Elizabeth the first, she was an illegitimate child, after the death of all of her siblings she claimed the throne at the age of 25 and held it for 44 years. She loved England greatly which inspired people to have unbounded patriotism that is exult in the poetry of Shakespeare and Spenser. In that era, the economic conditions had settled, therefore, they became interested in literature as a source of leisure. As a result, literature had reached the highest point of its development which effected the English literature. Regarding to that, the reasons of this development has various.
Firstly, in the North of England there was largely Catholic and the South