englis coursework..........I NEED HELP!!?

Question

hi, im doing a piece of course work on Romeo and Juliet. one of the things on the sheet say the following:
"give some details about life and culture in the Elizabethan Era"
what do i write here??

Answer 1

Well - logically you do a bit of research about how people lived back then.
Take the author for instance - he was actually in a band of players, he would have washed irregularly, eaten irregularly, shared his bed with fleas (if he had a whole bed), travelled the country in carts acting at villages when the London theatre season wasn't on.
There is LOTS online about that era - and loads of books at the library too!

Answer 2

The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. It was the height of the English Renaissance, and saw the flowering of English literature and poetry. This was also the time during which Elizabethan theatre flourished and William Shakespeare, among others, composed plays that broke away from England's past style of plays and theatre. It was an age of expansion and exploration abroad, while at home the Protestant Reformation became entrenched in the national mindset.

The Elizabethan Age is viewed so highly because of the contrasts with the periods before and after. It was a brief period of largely internal peace between the English Reformation and the battles between Protestants and Catholics and the battles between parliament and the monarchy that would engulf the seventeenth century. The Protestant/Catholic divide was settled, for a time, by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and parliament was still not strong enough to challenge royal absolutism.

England was also well-off compared to the other nations of Europe. The Italian Renaissance had come to an end under the weight of foreign domination of the peninsula. France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes. In part because of this, but also because the English had been expelled from their last outposts on the continent, the centuries long conflict between France and England was largely suspended for most of Elizabeth's reign.

The one great rival was Spain, with which England conflicted both in Europe and the Americas in skirmishes that exploded into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585–1604. An attempt by Philip II of Spain to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated, but the tide of war turned against England with a disastrously unsuccessful attack upon Spain, the Drake-Norris Expedition of 1589. Thereafter Spain provided some support for Irish Catholics in a draining guerilla war against England and Spanish naval and land forces inflicted a series of defeats upon English forces. This badly damaged both the English Exchequer and economy that had been so carefully restored under Elizabeth's prudent guidance. English colonisation and trade would be frustrated until the signing of the Treaty of London the year following Elizabeth's death.

England during this period had a centralised, well-organised, and effective government, largely a result of the reforms of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Economically, the country began to benefit greatly from the new era of trans-Atlantic trade.





i got thisinfo on wikipedia

Answer 3

ok, in the elzabethan era, queen elizabeth 1 was on the throne. It was a time of political and religious upheaval, with protestants being burned at the stake.

erm, other thing you can bring into this is a bit about william shakespeare, the globe theatre, the spanish armada, sir francis drake the explorer, mary queen of scots who tried to overthrow queen elizabeth and got beheaded in the process.

Maybe something about Henry 8th and his six wives.

Also, you may want to talk about hygience and sanitation in elizabethan england. There was no sanitationa nd no medicine, and people made up their own cures.

Answer 4

Try first to understand the question:

The "Elizabethan" era was 1558–1603, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was also considered the "Golden Age" of England.

If you know these facts, you can more easily look up what was happening during that time.

Answer 5

Golden Age of England, the Spanish Armada, Sir Francis Drake. The Globe theatre. Sir Francis Walshingham(he started the first secret service in England reputedly) Shakespear, Anne Hathaway.
Better still Professor Adam Hart-Davis television programme, WHAT THE TUDORS DID FOR US

Answer 6

Some details about what life was like and what the culture was like in the Elizabethan times. Pretty much exactly what it says, basically.

Answer 7

But hark what light through yonder window breaks. It is a numpty who cannot spell the word English.

If in doubt about the Elizabethan era watch Blackadder.

Answer 8

Just type in Elizabethan era and wilkpedia slould give you some idea's.

Answer 9

It's a pretty general question so I'm guessing your teacher isn't expecting anything brilliant from you. Noble women shaved their eyebrows. Wikipedia should give you a lot of details.

Answer 10

there were no underground sewers, they were all open and ran down the street, there were lots of rats and lots of people catching diseases from them, nearly everyone had body lice, hence the expression lap dogs, small dogs sitting on your lap and the lice were supposed to go to the dog and not them