CONCESSIVE

ELIZABETH REGINA

The Golden Age (pag. 62)

1. However, it is worth remembering that the English Renaissance covers a period both before and after Elizabeth’s reign.
2. Although all the arts flourished during this eventful period, the outstanding realizations were in literature.

Elizabethan Sonneteers (pag. 63)

1. Though Elizabeth did not like him, for stating his opposition to her marriage plans, she was sorrowful when he died, as was most of England.
2. Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings.
3. However, in the sonnet that follows, he was also responding to what we might call an epidemic of sonnet writing that had turned the form into a vehicle to express what was insincerely felt.

Elizabeth’s sea dogs (pag. 89)

1. Though the Spanish authorities had no moral object to slavery, they did not want the English to be active in their territories.
2. Though Elizabeth was never pleased when she lost funds in such undertakings, she forgave Hawkins.
3. Hawkins did not forget what he had suffered at the hands of the Spanish, though he had some involvement in the scheme to put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne.
4. Elizabeth, however, overlooked whatever involvement he might have had in this scheme.
5. However, the activity of these pirates did not have the approval of the English crown and the treasure they took did not find its way to the King’s pockets.