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Shakespeare

Shakespeare. Culture, Society, and Town Life By: Brandon, Andrew, and Jenny. High Society. Shakespeare lived in the time where knights and nobles were still at the top of the social class. However, the merchant class was not too far behind. Nobles Old and New.

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Shakespeare

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  1. Shakespeare Culture, Society, and Town Life By: Brandon, Andrew, and Jenny

  2. High Society • Shakespeare lived in the time where knights and nobles were still at the top of the social class. However, the merchant class was not too far behind.

  3. NoblesOld and New • In this time period, the new and old nobles were beginning to be clearly different. The old nobles were all mainly Catholic, and the new ones were mainly Protestant. Everyone in the towns had to change to Protestant but the upper classes did not have to.

  4. Noble Obligations • Many people think that nobles were all rich, this wasn’t always the case. • They often brought debt rather than profit • Nobles were unpaid and they had a responsibility of housing sometimes over 100 residents.

  5. Elizabethan progresses • Queen Elizabeth was one of the greater people in this time period. • To work for her or be apart of anything involving her was considered to be a great honor.

  6. The new merchant class • During this time period, the merchant class took part in wool weaving and trade and quickly became the middle class. • Wool churches were churches where these merchants who made money off the wool would go and worship.

  7. Housing • For the first time, houses started to become symmetrical. • Houses were still built around the courtyards, and the halls were still the center of attention. • Walls were now decorated with linen and freshly cut boughs for scents. • Gardens started to become vital to the Tudardynesty

  8. House Interior • By Shakespeare’s time, sculptures were beginning to make their ways into homes. • Furniture were starting to become much more elaborate. • After the Elizabeth era, things began to differ, and the English become more clean.

  9. Literature • Latin was the language for literature at the time. • Plays became big after the 1580s. • “Popular games included bowls, paume (the ancestor of tennis), tilting at quintain, bull and bear-baiting, and cockfighting”(Ross).

  10. Works Cited • Ross, David. “Elizabethan Life.” Britain Express. April 29 2013.

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