http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz1.html
Overview of Queen Elizabeth’s life and politics.

http://www.livgenmi.com/gardiner20.htm
Map of England and Wales 1485-1603

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/history/government.html
These pages diagram the structure of the Elizabethan government.

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/macro/5009/49.html#tudor
“The men she appointed to help her run and stage-manage the government were politiques like herself: William Cecil (later Lord Burghley), her principal secretary and in 1572 her lord treasurer; Matthew Parker, her archbishop of Canterbury; and a small group of other moderate and secular men.”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.html
Primary source materials- This site contains the writings and speeches of Elizabeth I.