Elizabethean England Flashcards
16th century (_______), ___________ society
1500s
agriculture
Struggle for __________
survival
Majority of population lived in the _________
South
Approximately 120,000 people lived in ________
London
Population _________ by 1 million during Elizabeth’s reign
increased
Inside houses : ___________________________, dark, dingy, lit by candles
no running water or proper drainage
1561 – ____________ plague kills 17,000 in London
Bubonic
Dusty roads, travel by __________________
horseback or boat
Major industry: ________ exported as ________ to Europe
wool
cloth
Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of _________ 2nd marriage to ______________
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
Queen Elizabeth I was known as the _____________because she never married.
Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I liked the consummate ________ of being Queen and didn’t want to share
power
Queen Elizabeth I was born in _________
1533
Queen Elizabeth I’s mother was _________ in 1536
executed
Elizabeth ___________ and _____________ from court
illegitimate
banished
Befriends ________________________ and lives with her after his death in 1547
Catherine Parr, Henry’s 6th wife
Elizabeth ______________________ upon her half-sister’s death
becomes Queen in 1558 at 25 years old
Elizabeth was ___________ for the enormity of the task which lay ahead and had to maintain a _______________
ill-prepared
politically low profile
Elizabeth’s greatest talent –
an unerring ability to choose and inspire capable men to govern her kingdom
Elizabeth inherited a ________________ nation at a time when profound _______________ changes were sweeping across the whole of Europe
weak, divided, and dispirited
political and social
Powerful neighboring countries were ________________ as __________________________ tore at the very hearts and souls of her subjects.
threatening invasion
conflicting old and new religious ideologies
Elizabeth’s reign
1558-1603
Current state:
England at war with France, who is allied with Scotland
broke with Rome and dissolved all monasteries
Henry VIII
Henry VII created the
Church of England
Hard line Protestant
Edward VI
Catholic, publicly burned heretics at the stake
Mary I
Believed to be the greatest playwright in history
Shakespeare
Shakespeare was know for his ability to _____________
depict human character
Shakespeare was born on
23 April 1564 in Stratford
In 1582, Shakespeare marries ____________, who is ___________
Anne Hathway
Illiterate
Shakespeare died on
April 23, 1616 at 52 years old
James I ruled from:
1603–1625
King James paid Shakespeare’s theater company the greatest possible compliment by endowing its members with the status of the ______________.
King’s Players
Shakespeare is said to have written _____ plays and ____sonnets.
37
154
Shakespeare gained the bulk of his fame ____________.
posthumously
Founding member of the ___________________, an acting company
Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Late 1580s, becomes involved with ________________ and moves to London
a travelling group of actors
_____________ built on Bankside; Shakespeare is a shareholder.
Globe Theater
Plays were ______________.
staged in the open air
No_____________________ , minimal music and sound effects
women, no curtains or props
Julius Caesar born
July 12, 100BC
Caesar was considered to be a _______________________.
military genius and brilliant politician
Rome suffered from constant infighting between _____________________ to whom they supposedly owed allegiance.
ambitious military leaders and the far weaker senators
Caesar was stabbed to death by his conspirators
Most accounts say ___ times
Shakespeare says ___ times
23
33
Caesar was named dictator for life or _______________
Dictator Perpetuus
