Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) was so powerful a cultural influence that her time is now commonly referred to as the Elizabethan Era. She was the subject of many works of art, as well as the creator of some. She was well educated, in both Greek and Latin, and she read widely in the classics. Because Elizabeth was proud of these talents, she enjoyed displaying them in her speeches, poetry, and translations of biblical and classical prose and poetry. Her own poetry is about actual events from her life. Its tone is vigorous and somewhat moralistic, and much of it is written in poulter's measure, which makes use of alternating iambic hexameter and iambic heptameter couplets. For more information on Elizabeth and her reign, see the unit introduction (pages 284–285).