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Fin de Siecle: Six Excursions into Our Past: 4: The 1590s: Gloriana Unmasked

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The age of Shakespeare and Spenser is also an era of hunger, riot and rebellion. As poets hymn the Faery Queen and politicians wonder who will succeed her, soldiers, apprentices and fishwives brawl over the price of food - and Puritan preachers rail against Sunday sports and Sunday trading.

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Source: Radio Times

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