Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?

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A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction … What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?Read More...

Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

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What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?

A. The Star Chamber B. Parliament C. The Privy Council D. The Cabinet...