How does the reign of elizabeth 1 influence shakespears work?

Question

How does the reign of elizabeth 1 influence shakespears work?

Answer 1

Elizabeth was a protestant

Shakespeare was not a foll so his works are not Catholic

ex in King Lear the phrase Eat no fish on Fridays

ie he is not a catholic

Answer 2

Tradition holds that William Shakespeare wrote the farcical "Merry Wives of Windsor" (1599), so Queen Elizabeth might see Falstaff in love.  Of course, critics have long speculated that Shakespeare didn't write his plays and poems and that someone closer to Elizabeth did, for instance, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, or perhaps Sir Francis Bacon.

Shakespearean scholars, such as Clare Asquith, argue that  internal evidence within Shakespeare's plays indicates that he had Papist sympathies, but kept them in check during Elizabeth's reign.  External evidence also may indicate that Shakespeare was a recusant Roman Catholic: Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother, was from a staunch Roman Catholic family, and his daughter, Susanna Hall, was identified as someone who refused to take Communion in an Anglican Church in 1606.

Answer 3

You know you should do your own homework!