What was the monarchy like during Shakespeare time?
Answer Hi Amanda, This is a very vague and unspecific question. “The Monarchy” covers a tremendous amount of information. Is there anything specific that you want to know about the monarchy during Shakespeare’s time? As a start let me say that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of two different monarchs. He was born in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon 1564, in the 6th year of the reign of Elizabeth I, where he grew up, married and had three children. As far as we know, he moved to London where he joined an acting company as an actor sometime in the mid 1580’s, and began writing his plays and poems in the late 1580’s, continuing through the 1590’s and into the 1600’s. Queen Elizabeth died in 1603. She was succeeded by King James I (of England, who was also King James VI of Scotland). Shakespeare continued to write until he retired in 1613 to his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, where he died in 1616. Elizabeth I remained unmarried and the sole ruler of England for 45 years. Since
