| But it's also a history play, and crams in all the issues of statecraft, politics, and morality that obsessed the Elizabethans. |
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| For Elizabethans, positive law derives from natural law, which itself flows from the divine will. |
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| The approach of Elizabethans and Jacobeans to non-Europeans was normally commercial and pragmatic. |
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| The name Sir Walter Ralegh conjures up images of gallant Elizabethans and daredevil mariners in small boats defying hordes of Spaniards. |
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| Without being stilted or pedantic about it, Sontag sums up the history of stagecraft back to the Elizabethans. |
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| Equally, the man she prefers to Glenthorn, Cecil Devereux, represents the next large wave of English immigrants, the Elizabethans. |
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| It has got to be as terrific for the emotional growth of Britain's young people as, say, bear-baiting was for the Elizabethans. |
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| The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion. |
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| Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose. |
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| Out-of-doors, well-to-do Elizabethans wore two pairs of shoes, an inner slipper and the outer shoe, which required some practice to keep on while walking. |
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| Throughout Lady Rebecca regaled members with interesting titbits and explanations of why the Elizabethans wore shifts, fur trimming, cuffs and ruffs, etc. |
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| Centuries later the Elizabethans and Jacobeans thought of Sluys as a historical precursor to the Spanish Armada. |
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| For example, out-of-doors, well-to-do Elizabethans wore two pairs of shoes, an inner slipper and the outer shoe, which required some practice to keep on while walking. |
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| The adventurous Elizabethans brought many foreign plants back to England, especially roses and other decorative flowers, and tomatoes, which were thought to be an aphrodisiac. |
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| Courtiers and other wealthy Elizabethans competed to build prodigy houses that proclaimed their status. |
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| On 14 August 2012 Hockney was the subject of BBC Radio Four's The New Elizabethans, presented by James Naughtie. |
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| Dormouse fat was believed by the Elizabethans to induce sleep since the animal put on fat before hibernating. |
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