Meanings
alternative rare Elizabethana
- pluralplural onlyElizabethan items.
Yet with all this bias for Elizabeth [I] Mr. [Milton] Waldman’s biography (a succinct and eminently readable book) is an important and interesting addition to Elizabethiana.
1933 October 8, Herbert Gorman, “When Gloriana Forged Her England […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
The report also disclosed an endowment of the Yale [University] Elizabethan Club with a fund of $100,000 by Alexander [Smith] Cochran, Yale, 1896. This is in addition to gifts by Mr. Cochran of a house and its furnishings, and the valuable collection of Elizabethiana bought by him in England, and estimated as worth about $200,000.
1912 June 18, “[Arthur Twining] Hadley Calls for More Specialization […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCThe play concerns Queen Elizabeth I of England. Dramatically it is her year. […] In all this activity I would venture that Miss [Gertrude] Gayle’s play is the least considerable piece of dramatic Elizabethiana you are likely to be given this season.
1971 November 29, Clive Barnes, “Stage: Earl Who Wrote Shakespeare”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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