Example sentences for: elizabethan

How can you use “elizabethan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

  • Two recent releases deal with the Elizabethan age-- Elizabeth , the bloody tale of the Virgin Queen's rise, and Shakespeare in Love , a romp through Elizabethan theater.

  • No amount of pointing out the vagaries of Elizabethan typesetting could shift his conviction.

  • Nor is it easy to determine its origins, although historically an argot known as pelting speech was employed by bands of ne'er-do-wells in Elizabethan England.

  • Every effort is made to sustain an Elizabethan atmosphere, with curtain times heralded by trumpeters in Renaissance doublet and hose.


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