ailed eradication of the Spanish fleet (Erickson 376). The Spanish Armada did not return, and if the defeat they suffered was not bad enough, a storm caught the Spanish on their way home. The raging waters swallowed many ships and men, and they never saw dry land again. Many stories circulated about dead animals that had washed up on shore. Geoffrey Fenton, secretary for Ireland, commented that he had never seen so many dead corpses as he did when he walked along the Irish shoreline after the Armada’s defeat (Erickson 376-377). Elizabeth died at the age of sixty-nine still known as the ‘Virgin Queen.’ Her reign, though plagued with conflicts that threatened to rip her small country apart, ended with her country having a strong and secure economy. Near the end of Elizabeth’s reign and stretching past the time of her death, England experienced a great literary period, which people now refer to as the Elizabethan age. ...
