In this thesis, I investigate ideological ambivalences in the context of contemporary political, religious, and economical theories, contending that ideological ambivalences mirror out the confrontation and opposition of political, religious, and economical movements of late Elizabethan England. In the first chapter, I aim to position ideological ambivalences among male relationship through the help of contemporary theories of kingship, allegiance, and biblical appropriation, charting out the hidden patriarchal background in post-Reformation England. In my second chapter, I explore the ambivalences of female roles in history, suggesting that female characters intervene in the patriarchal history and generate a voice of their own. In my third chapter, I situate my previous reading of politics and religions in economical phrases, bridging up the literary world of Shakespearean stage with a period that bears witness to the transition of late Elizabethan world from a lineage society into a civil nation.