Read the passage from elizabethan etiquette. if you happened to be a lord or lady in the court of queen elizabeth i, one way that you would occupy your time might be learning the plethora of etiquette rules so complex that one would have to memorize them as people today might memorize the lyrics to their favorite songs. the main topic of the passage is
- popular music.
- elizabethan royalty.
- elizabethan manners.
- modern society.

- Elizabethan manners.

Explanation:

The passage is basically dealing with the "etiquette rules" if an individual happens to be a part of the member of the court in Queen Elizabeth I's time. The passage gives a few facts about how a lady or a noble of the court is expected to behave when in the presence of the sovereign. But these etiquette list of rules were sometimes so complex even for the people concerned. The Queen may be given a number of dishes and she will chose what she wants to eat. Then the remaining dishes will be eaten by the others. Likewise, nobody is to turn his back on the monarch, so to avoid showing one's back to the Queen, the people usually have to walk backwards while retreating from the presence of the Queen. Such are the types of etiquette rules prevalent and followed during Queen Elizabeth I's reign. So, the passage is mainly dealing with the topic of Elizabethan manners to be followed.