The resulting flood of liquidity caused a global boom that benefited economies from Elizabethan England to Mughal India.

These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England around 1600.

In Elizabethan and Middle English, closet referred to a larger room in which a person could sit and read in private, but now refers to a small room in general.

One example of this challenge is his Holy Sonnet X, Death Be Not Proud, from which come the famous lines Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.

In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid 20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.

Historians have noted its influence in Elizabethan England (which produced the spirit animating the Puritan Rebellion and migration to America), and increasingly recognize it as the motive force behind the French and the Russian Revolutions.

They consider the idea that Shakespeare revealed himself autobiographically in his work as a cultural anachronism it has been a common authorial practice since the 19th century, but was not during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

In the latter, human experiences are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical hyperbole), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which Shakespeare makes light of in his sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.