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Elizabethan Period
Shakespeare - Historical and Social Classes
Question | Answer |
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When did Shakespeare write most of his plays? | During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I |
TRUE or FALSE? The order of the social class was; Monarch, clergy, knights, townsfolk, servants, poor/unemployed. | False |
TRUE or FALSE? The order of the social class was; Monarch, knights, clergy, townsfolk, servants, poor/unemployed. | True |
Could women vote? | no |
Could woment get an education? | yes, but they had to be tutored; they could not attend public schooling |
Why did the family usually set up the marriage of woman? | to increase wealth |
Could women serve in professional jobs? | no, they could be cooks or maids |
What was primogeniture? | the eldest child inherited land and money from parents |
Why were victims isolated in their homes during the Bubonic Plague? | To keep them from spreading the disease. |
What would allow survivors of the Bubonic Plague to go back to work? | Certificate of Health |
What kind of food did higher class people eat? | Meat and wine |
What kind of spice was increasing in popularity? | sugar |
There was very little hygene, so how often did normal people bathe? | about once or twice a year |
How often did royalty bathe? | 2 times a week |
What was cutpursing? | A form of stealing where one would cut another's change purse, spilling the coins on the ground for the theif to take. |
What were the homes like? | no diagonal timbers, high chimmneys, or Dormer windows |
Clothing symbolized what? | Status and wealth |
Lower classmen did what in their regular city life? | participated in theater |
The lowest class that was open to schooling was which class? | The Middle Class |