Elizabethan Era

1. Elizabethan Era and 1560-1603 Shakespeare 1564-1616

2. 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”

3. 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.

4. 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!

5. 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

6. 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

7. Punishments • Women who gossiped too much were put put in a brank, paraded around town, and whipped. • Amputation • Torture • Death

8. Entertainment • Feasts • Festivals • Dancing • Jousts • Hunting • Plays

9. Shakespeare • Born 1564; Died 1616 • Wrote 37 plays & 154 sonnents • Married Anne Hathaway • Three children • Globe theater

10. 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

11. 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”

12. The Globe Theater

13. The Globe Theater • Original no longer exists • Rebuilt 1997 • Can go see plays there now