The average worker earns just £5 a year. Everybody has their place in Elizabethan society and to be accepted in this world it is important to know where you stand. Servants, visitors, royal ...

It was also feared that theatres could spread diseases like the plague. Elizabethan society was divided into a hierarchy of different groups. It was very rare for people to move up the hierarchy ...

Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

The Anglo-Italian contrasts in Elizabethan society are well known: if the Queen called herself demie Italienne, the Genoese financier Sir Horatio Pallavicino became more than half an English country ...