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The Elizabethans are a student-founded, student-led a cappella group at Williams College. The term Elizabethans also refers to people who lived in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the time of William Shakespeare and of Renaissance music. The group is referred to colloquially as the 'Bethans.

In 1993, during Williams's Winter Study term, students came together to form the Elizabethans, for the purpose of performing vocal music of the Renaissance. The group now also sings contemporary choral pieces, arrangements of modern popular music, folk songs arranged by groups like the King's Singers and Chanticleer, and too many other genres to list. Nevertheless, the focus of the Elizabethans' repertoire is still on the English and Italian madrigal and the French chanson of the Renaissance.

The group's "signature piece" is "My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth" by P.D.Q. Bach.