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Basic information about possible contributing factors to Shakespearean writings.TRANSCRIPT
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William Shakespeare
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Henry VIII1509-47 AD
-Obsessed with producing a male heir
-Married: Six wives
-Created Church of England when Catholic Pope in Rome would not grant him a divorce from first wife.
Wife 1-Catherine of Aragon (widow of his brother, Arthur) in 1509, divorcing her in 1533; the union produced one daughter,
Mary.
Wife 2-Henry married the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533; she gave him another
daughter, Elizabeth, but was executed for infidelity (a treasonous charge in the king's consort) in May 1536.
1491-1547
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(1533-1603)
-More relaxed reign than Mary, her (Catholic) half sister’s four year reign
ENTERTAINMENTS:
-Plays
-Bear baiting or cock-fighting
-Brothels
A Bishop regulated the industry and made himself a tidy profit
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Gaps between teeth were expected
Queen Elizabeth I filled the holes in her mouth with cloth to improve her appearance in public
Some who could not afford sugar, blacked out their teeth to make them look rotten
-Peasants had boring, meager diet
-Wealthy people had more variety
-Mostly meat (even Peacocks)
-Sir Walter Raleigh recently brought potatoes from his travels
-Tomatoes (Love Apples) recently brought from Mexico
-People were suspicious of most vegetables and fruits
-Fancy sugar desserts popular
-Obesity a sign of wealth
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-Shakespeare had terrible fear of the deadly disease and its consequences
-The population of Wooster, Ohio was 24,811 at the 2000 census
-In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the disease (80,000 in England)
1593 , 1603 and 1608
-3 very serious outbreaks of the disease Led to the closure of all places of Elizabethan entertainment, including Globe Theater
Black Death / Bubonic Plague
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April 23, 1564
Will Shakespeare born
April 26, 1564
Will's baptism recorded in the register of the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Stratford-upon-Avon:
"Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere"
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November 27, 1582
Will Shakespeare (18 years old)
Marries Anne Hathaway (26 years old)
May 26, 1583
Susanna, Will's first child, is baptized
(Susanna lives to be 66 years old)
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1584
English Expedition claims North Carolina for England; Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen" names the land Virginia
February 2, 1585
-Will's wife gives birth to twins, who are baptized.
Judith (girl) and Hamnet (boy) –
(Judith lives to be 77 years old
Hamnet dies at the young age of 11)
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August 11, 1596
Hamnet, Shakespeare's
son, dies
October 20, 1596
John Shakespeare
(Shakespeare’s father) granted Coat of Arms
The motto read: "Non sans droict" or
"Not without right"
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1599
Globe Theatre built
March 24, 1603
Queen Elizabeth dies
1603
James VI of Scotland is crowned
King James I, King of England,
upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I
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Byrd
Song
Plainsong
Byrd Mass for 4 Voices
Byrd La Volta
Rufty Tufty dance
Street Cries-Orlando Gibbons
Morris Dance- Shephards Hey
The clown Richard Tarlton
Music
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June 5, 1607
Shakespeare's daughter Susanna marries a popular doctor, Dr. John Hall
1608
Shakespeare's Troupe, The Kings's Men,
buys the Blackfriars Theatre
Classy clothes A person below the rank of a knight's eldest son, for example, was not allowed to wear satin, damask or taffeta.
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February 10, 1616
-Shakespeare's daughter Judith
marries Thomas Quiney.
-Shakespeare unhappy with the marriage -----Especially dislikes Thomas Quiney (who had confessed to impregnating another woman)
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1619
The first female English colonists arrive in Jamestown
August 20, 1619
Twenty people, indentured servants, are taken to Virginia, becoming the first African-born bondsmen to arrive in America1620Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts
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April 23, 1616
-Will Shakespeare dies
at the age of 52
April 23, 1616
-Miguel de Cervantes
(wrote Don Quixote) dies
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http://www.willshakespeare.com/default.htm
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-era.htm
http://www.mermaidclinic.com/Articles/teeth-whitening-london-medieval-teeth.html
http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/Enz-Ho/False-Teeth.html
http://www.britannia.com/history/londonhistory/tudlon.html
http://www.elizabethi.org/us/food/
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-life.htm
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/plainsong.html
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/stage/fashion.html