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The Elizabethan World View
wilsonsbritworld.weebly.comMontaigne, for instance, offered the notion that there were two kinds of ‘savages’ – the noble savage, and the ignoble savage. Debates raged as to whether humans were inherently good or bad. The Great Chain of Being – people believed that everyone and everything
Female power: witchcraft and gender in …
www.witchtrials.co.uk1 of 29 © Kate Dumycz 2005 Cert Hum(Open), Adv Dip Local History (Oxford) Female power: witchcraft and gender in Elizabethan England. “Ioane Cunny, liuing very lewdly, hauing two lewde Daughters, no better then
Elizabethan Life for a Middle Class Townsperson
chicostume.orgElizabethan Life for a Middle Class Townsperson Introduction : There was no formal middle class at this time period. There was the nobility/gentry and the lower classes. However, many merchants and townsfolk were becoming so wealthy via trade and servic
Elizabethan Women - The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
www.phillyshakespeare.orgIn those times, a negligible number of women were wealthy. Inheritance laws dictated that property be passed to the eldest son. No matter how many daughters a family had, it was the son the inherited, regardless of age; a family could have a 25 year old daughter and an infant son, but it would be the son who inherited the property.
Elizabethan and Shakespearean Tragedy
academic.brooklyn.cuny.eduGreek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotle's Poetics The classic discussion of Greek tragedy is Aristotle' s Poetics.He defines trag edy as "the im itation o f an