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Selected Readings in British Literature 英国文学选读 * * Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age·English Drama·Shakespeare The Elizabethan Age (1558-1625): A Brief Introduction The Elizabethan period began with the ascension of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558, and its afterglow shone well beyond the 16th century. The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed Chaucer’s Medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one. The Renaissance and the Reformation made the Elizabethan age one of the few greatest in the literary history of the world. All the three major departments of literature — poetry, dra