She was a prominent writer and a great orator
Elizabeth I got a thorough education in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and rhetoric from notable humanists John Cheke, William Grindal, and Roger Ascham while she was young. Throughout her life, she translated ancient books and penned poems. More notably, Queen Elizabeth I authored a great deal of correspondence and speeches. These were written with outstanding rhetorical abilities, and they helped her establish her authority and improve her image. Elizabeth I was also an excellent orator. The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, made on August 19, 1588 to the land forces gathering at Tilbury in Essex in preparation for resisting the projected invasion by the Spanish Armada, is one of her most famous speeches. "I have the body of a frail, fragile woman; yet I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a King of England too," she remarked in the address's most famous sentence.
She was a prominent writer and a great orator. In their stiff and complicated language, some of her first letters resemble school exercises, yet they respond discreetly to different political problems throughout the reign of her brother, Edward VI. These letters show her developing capacity to use language to conceal as much as it exposes, as well as to walk a narrow line between self-assertion and self-abnegation.
