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Welcome to the Capulet Ball!

Welcome to the Capulet Ball!. Miss Reeder’s 9 th Grade English. Masquerade. The Capulet ball is a masquerade, meaning everyone is wearing masks and costumes. This is a good thing for our party crashers, the Montagues , because nobody will recognize them! 

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Welcome to the Capulet Ball!

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  1. Welcome to the Capulet Ball! Miss Reeder’s 9th Grade English

  2. Masquerade • The Capulet ball is a masquerade, meaning everyone is wearing masks and costumes. • This is a good thing for our party crashers, the Montagues, because nobody will recognize them!  • Masquerades were a popular form of entertainment for the upper classes in the 16th-17th centuries in Europe.

  3. Dancing • Court dancing versus lower class • Court = imported from France, Italy, & Spain • Lower class = country dances such as the jig • Dancing was a form of exercise for the mind and body. • Queen Elizabeth expected everyone in her court to be able to dance. • Performed 7 dances per day, minimum • Continued this until she was old!

  4. Country Dances Black Nag Gathering Peascods Bransle Hay Chirping of the Nightingale Cuckolds All In A Row The Fryar and the Nun Hyde Park Hole in the Wall Jack a Lent Jenny Pluck Pears The Maydpeept out at the window Merry MerryMilke Maids Petticoat Wag Punks Delight Picking Up Sticks The Bear Dance RuftyTufty Saturday night and Sunday morn Strip the Willow Sellenger's Round Trenchmore (The Hunting of the Fox) Washerwomen's Bransle

  5. Food • Meal was a sign of wealth • Different foods introduced during time period from the New World • Increased usage of sugar • The visual effect of food was just as important as taste of Elizabethans. • Water was not fit to drink, so wine and ale were the staple beverage. • Lower classes • Staple foods were bread and cheese

  6. Banquets & Feasts • We still indulge like this today! • Old Country Buffet, Ponderosa, Bonanza, etc. – buffet restaurants are based on this idea!!! • Typically 3-7 courses • Feasts were so large that servants were employed for the oddest jobs, including bread trencher, who replaced stale bread throughout the meal.

  7. Nutrition • The nutrition of the poor was actually better than that of the nobles! • The nobles consumed a lot of sugar and lacked Vitamin C, calcium, & fiber. • Bad teeth • Skin diseases • Scurvy & Rickets • It was “fashionable” to have blackened teeth because sugar was known to do this and it was a sign of wealth to eat sugar. Cosmetics were even applied to the teeth to achieve the effect!!!

  8. Let’s Vote! Most Original Most Colorful Most Unique Materials Most Carefully Done Wildest Funniest Design that Reflects a Character from R&J

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