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It was called the Elizabethan age after Queen Elizabeth I of England who ruled from 1558 to her death in 1601. Shakespeare spent the first 37 years of his life during Elizabeth's reign and so naturally began his writing then. He continued writing into the Jacobean era, so named after King James I who came to the throne on Elizabeth's death. Shakespeare would have had a hard time writing, say, during the Victorian era which began 221 years after his death.

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