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Table of Contents Role of Elizabethan England Italian Vendettas

pg. 3 & 4 pg. 5&6

The Globe Theatre

pg. 7 & 8

Queen Elizabeth

pg. 9&10

The History and Science of the Black Plague

pg. 11 & 12

Role of Women and Marriage

pg. 13 & 14

Religious Beliefs and Restrictions of Elizabethan England pg. 15 & 16 Elizabethan England Crime, Law, And Punishment

pg. 17 & 18

Elizabethan Fashion

pg. 19 & 20

Shakespeare's Biography

pg. 21 & 22

Elizabethan Music/Dancing

pg. 23 & 24

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Role of Theatre in Elizabethan England Across 4. Plays went on for three hours straight without breaks 8. Women were not allowed to act 9. Many of his plays were acted out Down 1. The extravagant clothing actors wore 2. They didn't have any stage lights so they had to use this while it was available 3. People would sneak out of their jobs to see plays 5. Because there was none of this, the audience had to imagine the scene 6.She loved coming to see plays 7. You can get this disease from standing in the lower section.

9. These were sold to people watching (Discovery Education Puzzlemaker, 2017)

Theatres in the 16th century were mainly circular, with a little stage and a couple stories of viewing areas surrounding it. The upper class audience would sit in the upper levels, while the lower class commoners would stand on the viewing floor. Going to see a play was a stress relieving and fun time for everyone, even the queen!

(Chez, 2016) Across: 4. Intermission; 8. Unequal; 9. Shakespeare Down: 1. Costumes 2. Sunlight 3. Stress 5. Scenery 6.

Queen 7. Plague 9. Snacks

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Role of Theatre in Elizabethan England GOING TO THE THEATRE! ● ● ● ● ● ●

PROS Good seats in the galleries for the well known people Snacks were sold Took you out of daily life to relax/stress relieving Excellent costumes Fun. Gave the people an opportunity to be creative, and imagine

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CONS Could get the Black Plague by standing in the standing section There were no intermissions in the play Plays were 3+ hours If it rained the lower class in the center of the theatre would have to suck it up Women could not participate in the plays No scenery Performances were only during the daylight hours, there was no stage lighting except for candles Candles as lighting caused many fires

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(Cawthorne, 2016)

Italian Vendettas What Is A Vendetta Vendettas, also commonly known as blood feuds were very common around the time of shakespeare. A vendetta was formed when a family was seeking revenge for the murder of a family member.

(Vendetta, 2012)

Famous Families In Shakespearean times some of the famous families were the Guelphs and Ghibellines. The fighting between Guelfs and Ghibellines in various communes often ended with the exile of the losing party.

During the course of the 14th century, the importance of both parties rapidly declined. They lost international significance because the emperors no longer interfered in Italy and the popes moved from Rome to France. “Guelf” and “Ghibelline” implied only local factions.

Guelf and Ghibelline 2017

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Italian Vendettas The feuds usually consisted of killings and counter killings. When the feuds would break out into a battle, they would almost always take place in an almost abandoned town where the law was not enforced as strictly. Feuds could be avoided if the group responcible for the original homicide accepted a counter killing of someone from their group.

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The Globe Theatre The Globe Theatre was located beneath the River Thames in the County of Surrey.

It was also near many other theatres such as The Rose, The Swan, and The Hope.

History of the Globe Theatre The theatre was built in 1599 in Southwark, London. The Globe used the wood of the Blackfriars theatre that ended due to financial problems. After the fire, Lord Chamberlin’s Men decided to build their own playhouse. The Men made an agreement with Shakespeare and four other actors to co-own the Globe. Sadly, the theatre was destroyed in a fire in June of 1613.

(Globe Theatre, 2017) (Globe Theatre, 2001) (Hope Theatre: London theatres, 2017)

Design of The Globe Theatre The design of Globe Theatre was based off of the original Theatre in London. It was a twenty sided building which almost formed a circle. There were three different levels for seating, the floor, and two higher levels.There were also reserved rooms on the stage balcony that were considered the nicest seats. The actual stage was about 44 feet across and 27 feet wide. There were 20 bays in the theatre which are small compartments or rooms. Five of them were used for storing props and costumes.

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The Globe Theatre Fun Facts - The Globe is still well known even after 400 years after Shakespeare’s death.

- 50% of the Globe was owned by the Burbage brothers and the other 50% was owned by Lord Chamberlain's Men (which included Shakespeare and other actors.)

- The stage was surrounded by audience members on all sides, so people sitting toward the back of the stage could not see the scenes as well.

- The circular shape of the theatre was inspired by town marketplaces.

- The theatre held about 3,000 people.

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(Globe Theatre, 2001)

Queen Elizabeth

King Henry VIII had 6 wives.

He divorced or executed 5 of the 6. His last wife Catherine Parr was still his wife when King Henry died. Through his reign as king he went against the pope by not having England follow the Roman Catholic religion. He died on January 28, 1547.

Queen Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace on September 7, 1533. Her mom was beheaded before queen Elizabeth was 3. Her dad made her mom’s marriage invalid. This made Elizabeth an illegitimate child. Her younger brother became king when he was 10 and her sister got the rein when he died.

After they both died elizabeth took over and ruled for over 40 years. When she was queen her favorite jester was Richard Tarlton. While Elizabeth was alive she never married.

(Elizabeth I, 2017) (Henry VIII, 2017)

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About the Black Plague About the Black Plague

Impact of the Black Plague

The black plague, also known as the bubonic plague, and the black death, was a disease that spread throughout Europe and Asia in the 1300s and 1400s.

Since trade between other countries and regions was helping to spread the disease, trade was slowed as a result of the plague. This impacted many countries’ economies, since many workers and farmers died, and there was a major loss in farmland. This left a lasting impact, and changed the structure of economies, and how countries and workers made money.

However, the loss of workers created higher wages, as people were in greater need of labor.

The Science of the Plague The black plague was caused by an infection with the bacterium yersinia pestis, as you can see below. Modern tests shows that the strain of this bacterium that caused the plague is ancient to the ones currently existing. This means that many current diseases that occur today have origins from medieval times.

Yersinia Pestis

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(Black death, 2017)

History of the Black Plague The first outbreak was reported during the reign of emperor Justinian of the Byzantine empire in the 6th century CE The Black Death had arrived in Europe on the sicilian port in Italy. The boat contained both dead and severely ill sailors. The sailors were ordered out of the harbor but it was too late and the Plague was released into Italy.

The plague ravaged through Europe and ended up killing around â…“ of its population. About 25 million people.

Today there is a cure for the Plague, and there is only an average of 7 human cases each year.

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(Black Death, 2017) Trail of the Plague

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Role of Women in Elizabethan Times Education Women were not allowed to attend school or universities but they could be educated at home.

They could not have an important job such as medicine, politics, or laws.

(England Education, 2017) Plays It was against the law for women to appear on stage in plays, so men would dress up as women for the plays. However women were allowed to see the plays.

Dress Code Women who would wear purple, were assumed to be wealthy in that time period because purple was very expensive.

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Role of Marriage in Elizabethan Times Marriage Women were expected to bring a dowry (marriage portion including money or goods) to the marriage. Also, arranged Marriages were very popular and they had no choice in whom they married.

(Love and Marriage, 2015)

Weddings The bride would not wear a white wedding dress, that was a later tradition. However she would wear her best gown and kirtle. (Alchin, 2012)

(Elizabethan England Marriage, 2017) Women's Roles In Marriage The women would raise their kids while the husbands went out and worked. Women had to cope with both living with husbands that were diplomats, but also to have a regular lifestyle and to prepare for their families.

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(Role of Women, 2017)

Religious beliefs of Elizabethan England

(Religion, 2017) The main two types of religion in Elizabethan England were Catholic and Protestant. The belief in these religions were so strong, it led to many executions to supporters of the Elizabethan religions.

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Restrictions to Religion (Religion in England 1500-1600, 2015).

Monarchs dictated the favored religion and schools taught the official religion ordered by Queen Elizabethan.

(America as a religious refuge, 2013)

If you didn’t follow the ‘favored’ religion it could often lead to great danger imprisonment, torture, or execution.

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Elizabethan England Crime, Law, And Punishment During the Elizabethan era Crime, Law, and Punishment was very different from how it is today. Back then people saw people dying all of the time so it was not as sensitive of a topic as it is today, Because of this executions were treated as a public event like a ceremony. Often the punishments were very bizarre and brutal, examples of this being:

(Elizabethan England Crime and Punishment, N.d). Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm

Punishment in Elizabethan england varied a lot between the upper and lower classes, for example someone who is considered a “commoner� could be executed for stealing anything over 5 pence. Other actions that could result in execution as a commoner is:

(Elizabethan England Crime and Punishment, N.d). Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm

In addition to having crimes specific to commoner there were also crimes specific to people in nobility but as compared to the laws for commoners they were actually very lenient, Some examples of these laws are:

(Elizabethan England Crime and Punishment, N.d). Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm

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Elizabethan Crime: Witchcraft and Magic Witchcraft was a major issue in Elizabethan England. It was used as an excuse to explain tragedies and misfortune.. For instance, if a farmer’s crops died unexpectedly, the go-to answer was witchcraft. Older Women were most often labeled as witches and put to death. Discoverie of Witchcraft was published in 1584 that explained exactly what to look for when identifying a witch. The book describe a witch as lame, blear-eyed, foul, and full of wrinkles. Witches were said to have “familiars” which were believed to be demons disguised as animals. Due to the outbreak of witchcraft, witch hunting became a profession that a person could make a living off of.

Magic and superstition were not considered witchcraft. Most people of the time believed is some type of magic. For example, it was believed that a piece of an unicorn’s horn was protection from poison. Most medical practices involved magic or superstitions.

(Picard, 2016)

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Elizabethan Fashion In the Elizabethan era almost everyone wore similar clothes. The higher class people would wear more colorful and elaborate clothes than the poor people though. The charts below show the common clothes that people would were.

Different color dyes meant different things and a lot of dyes were too expensive for regular people to buy.

Some colors represent royalty. One of these “royal” colors is purple. Other colors like Gold, silver, crimson or scarlet, deep indigo blue, violet colors and even deep black and pure white were only worn by wealthy people.

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Poor Elizabethan Fashion The position one holds in society was immediately determined by the strict rules of the color, style, and material of their clothing. Wool, linen, and sheepskin were inexpensive, therefore, they were limited to the poor Both women and men were limited to brown, beige, yellow, orange, russet, green, grey, and a lighter blue color for their clothing. The main items of clothing that one had was a coat or cloak, and a cap. In 1571 a law was passed that decreed that everyone over the age of six and of the poor must wear a woollen cap on Sundays and on holidays.

This was to support England’s wool trade. The less important a person was, the more flat their hat was.

(Linda Alchin, 2014) (Josephine Bui., 2017) (Historical Caps, 2017)

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Shakespeare's Biography Shakespeare’s Time Line: 1.)

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Christened in Stratford-upon-Avon April 26, 1564 Married to Ann Hathaway November 27, 1582 Daughter Susanna christened May 261583; Twins, Hamnet and Judith christened February 2,1585 Name first appears in print in 1592 Died at Stratford-upon-Avon April 23, 1616

(WashBush, J., 2014) Schooling: Shakespeare did not go to Stradford for schooling. It isn’t said where exactly he was schooled at. For all we know, he could have been home schooled.

Shakespeare's studies were in Latin.

He learned to read, write, and speak the language well and he also studied some of the Classical historians, moralists, and poets of his time. He didn’t go on to a University; it’s said that it is unlikely the classes there would have interested him in the first place.

Family Life: We don’t know much about Shakespeare’s childhood, but we do, however, know uite a bit about his and his wifes life later on. Shakespeare married a women named Ann Hathway, an erranged amrriage of course, but 21 the two were happy.

Six months after their marraige the two had their first child, Susanna Shakespeare. Not long after that they added two more young souls to their family.

Twins, Hamnet and Judith. Sadly, Hamnet passed away eleven years after his baptize.

(William Shakespeare, 2017).

The First Known Facts of Shakespeare: Eight years before his name first comes up are unknown to us.

We do not have any records of how Shakespeare lived his life before he started to become known to the public. Some stories say he would get into trouble and steal deer with local magnate, Sir Thomas Lucy; had a living in schoolmaster in the country; went to London and, by minding the horses of theatregoers, gained entry into the world of theater. Is rumored he may have been a soldier in the Low Countries. Not much is known about Shakespeare. The most we have to go off of are stories we have heard over the centuries about our beloved Shakespeare (William Shakespeare, 2017).

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(William Shakespeare, 2017).

Why did Shakespeare write Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo & Juliet was 2 real life people who had lived slightly over 2 ½ centuries before Shakespeare was born. The legend of their real life romance was first inked by Arthur Brooke in his publication titled ‘Romeus & Juliet’. When Shakespeare came across Arthur’s work, he started to develop a play from the story and it came out in first half of the 1590s.

Romeo and Juliet was written

by Shakespeare at a relatively early in his literary career, most likely in 1594 or 1595.

William Shakespeare was inspired to write "Romeo and Juliet" by a poem titled "Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooks.

(Unabridged, 2017) (Why did William Shakespeare write Romeo and Juliet?, N/A)

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Elizabethan Music/Dancing jkhKDFsdf

Entertainment. (n.d.). Retrieved May 03, 2017, from http://sockettperiodeassignment.weebly.com/entertain ment.htm

People were so drawn to the theatre and their love for music showed on stage.

Most theatre productions had music to enhance the performance.(Elizabethan Music, N/A) Music in theatre was so big that it even refected in the now-famous play writers. William Shakespear referenced music at least 500 times in plays!(Elizabethan Music, N/A)

Elizabethan church music dated back to the eighth century when one of the first church organs made an appearance.

Since almost all Elizabethan people attended church on Sundays, most hymns became popular through church services and were sung almost all the time.

(Elizabethan Music, N/A) People were so drawn to the theatre and their love for music showed on stage. Most theatre productions had music to enhance the performance.(Elizabethan Music, N/A)

Overview of Music and Dance. (n.d.). Retrieved May 03, 2017, from https://elizabethantimeswiki.wikispaces.com/Overvie ofMusicandDance

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Queen Elizabeth encouraged dancing and music and she was a patron on the arts and enjoyed them. It was a big part of her education because she was taught to play musical instruments and succeed in them.

Upper class dancingPeople in the upper class enjoyed newer types of music and dance, they would have people travel to Italy and France to get new dances and come back to show them how to do the new dances.

These dances were completely sophisticated and the people were expected to learn these dances and then perform them.

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Lower class dancingThe lower class dancers were not in the position to learn these new dances and to hear the new music. The only way they would see the new dances and hear the new music was if they were to go to a performance and watch the upper class dance when they are in the lastest style. The upper and lower class dances were completely different from each other.

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