A.L. Rowse, the eminent historian has written, 'The Elizabethan Age is not something dead and apart from us... Wherever one goes in England there are visible memorials of what thise men and women were when they were alive, the houses they built and loved and lived in, the things they made and wore, the objects they cherished, the patterns they imposed upon the very landscapes.' Some of the visible traces as well as something of the spirit of that England of Elizabeth, of Drake and Raleigh and of Shakespeare, are recorded in this film. 'Such stuff as dreams are made of, outlasting the years'. The camera conjures up Tudor England.