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was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field
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was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
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a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited
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The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
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was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son
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King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and also macbeth
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was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609
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is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611
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was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691.
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first published newspapers
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton
