Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Shakespeare - The Historical Background
- society
- based on rank and status
- family was emphasized
- laws = from the bible
- education
- boys: languages
- girls: focus on houswifery (only nobility)
- economy
- no money before the reign of Queen Elizabeth
- mass entertainment was popular
- beginning of the colonization
- growth of agriculture = economy boosted
- gold and silver were brought from Latin America
- politics
- rulers of England
- Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
- King James (1603-1625)
- Queen was influential for Shakespears plays (advocated freedom)
- church was more influential compared to the law
- England became a leading seapower
- religion
- Protestantism: established the year before Shakespeare was born
- large number of Protestants in cities and at the seaports
- conflicts between Protestants and Catholics