A Glance at the Age of Queen Elizabeth I with Polysystem Theory

English literature was allegedly at its first peak in the age of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603). The queen systematically intended to adopt a different approach than her ancestors. Instead of having battles in the fields, she ended up fighting which, in the end, brought prosperity to the country. Queen Elizabeth I further aimed to establish a new cultural repertoire and thus assist her people to acquire novel religion and cultural affairs. The newly-established culture, supported dominantly by the Queen herself, was constructed with the aim of uniting people around the new culture and religion, partially also with the influence of the Old Greek culture. Since Martin Luther used the Old Greek version as the source text in his translation of the Bible, the Old Greek language and literature were discovered and became widely popular. This novel-discovered language and literature were also utilized in England to establish a new culture and literary genres. This study aims to shed light on the novel canon established by benefiting from Itamar Even- Zohar’s “Polysystem Theory”. Even Zohar’s polysystem theory discusses the literature of specific ages and the literary circles newly established mainly for basic purposes since the literary genres have the power to influence and impose basic cultures on the crowds. The descriptive study method will be utilized to examine the aforementioned age.