Elizabethan Era

1. Elizabethan Era

2. Disease • London was subject to terrible diseases because it was infested with rats, dirty and overpopulated. • It had everything from plague to typhus to malaria. • Abandoned children helped spread the diseases

3. Theatres • The first performers performed in inns. • The first amphitheatre was built in 1576 • Soon after indoor amphitheatres were built to allow nobility to watch plays inside.

4. St. Paul's Cathedral • The tallest building in London was St. Paul's Cathedral • Shakespeare performed here

5. Life In Elizabethan London • No one drank water because it was all contaminated with disease. The lower class drank mead. • The poor ate mostly vegetables and grain because nobles wouldn’t eat food from the ground. • Every class had its own color and wearing the wrong color was illegal. • Life expectancy was 42

6. Medicine • Doctors wore strange masks that probably let them live a little longer • Leeches were cures for everything. Plague was cured by lancing the buboes • Headaches and stomach aches were cured with roots and herbs.

7. Sources • Shakespeare-online • Elizabethan Authors • Elizabethan England life • Wikipedia • Elizabethan-Era