1 - British History and Society

Item #1

Identify the Queen of England who ruled in principal during Shakespeare's writing career.  List the approximate dates of her rule and at least five other facts about her as a female British monarch.

 

 

Item #2

Explore societal norms, especially with regard to women.  How was a young woman to respond to a request from her father?  Identify the social classes of the time period, and explain the role of education for most people at the time.  Define primogeniture.

 

 

Item #3

Dynamically explore three of the following aspects of 1590's English life:
   - food
   - homes and architecture
   - city life, hygiene, crime
   - clothing
   - the Bubonic plague

Resources

Sixteenth/Seventeenth Century Timeline

Shakespeare's Historical Period

Biography and History

 


Resources

Elizabethan Culture

Shakespeare's Historical Period

Education

Primogeniture



Resources

Clothing

Elizabethan Culture

Elizabethan Houses

Plague

Homes

 

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