Elizabethan Era

1560-1603

Shakespeare

and

1564-1616

Queen Elizabeth I

•Considered to be England’s “Golden Age”•Ruled for 44 years•Never married. Huge deal at the time.•Nicknamed the “Virgin Queen”

Fashion in the Elizabethan Era

• Men wore their hair short, while women combed their long hair upwards where it was fixed with a wire frame that formed a heart shape.

• Purple clothing was a sign of royalty.

• During the Elizabethan era, men and women wore very high collars, fashioned after Spanish couture.

Fashion• Women strove to imitate her curly red hair,

using different recipes for bleaching their hair. Some of these recipes used strange elements, including urine!

Hygiene

• Baths were not common due to the amount of work to fill a tub.

• Toilets consisted of Chamber Pots• Waste disposed in cesspools and dung

heaps…. Sometimes even just out the

window into the streets

The Plague

• Also known as the Black Death

• Wiped out 2/3 of people

• Symptoms: sores that bleed and turn black

• Killed in 4-7 days

• Transferred by fleas

• Thought disease was

spread by bad smells

Punishments• Women who gossiped too much were put

put in a brank, paraded around town, and whipped.

• Amputation

• Torture

• Death

Entertainment

• Feasts

• Festivals

• Dancing

• Jousts

• Hunting

• Plays

Shakespeare• Born 1564; Died 1616

• Wrote 37 plays & 154 sonnents

• Married Anne Hathaway

• Three children

• Globe theater

His Death“Good friend for Jesus sake

forbeare,To dig the dust enclosed here.

Blessed be the man that spares these stones,

And cursed be he that moves my bones.”

• Buried in Stratford at the Holy Trinity Church

The Globe Theater

• Actors were all males

• Sat about 3000 people

• Cheapest “seats” were in front (standing room only)

• Performances during the

day (open roof!)

• “All the World's a Stage”

The Globe Theater

The Globe Theater

• Original no longer exists

• Rebuilt 1997

• Can go see plays there now