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elizabethan era

            The Elizabethan era was a time of transition between Gothic and Renaissance styles. It reached its highest point in the late 1500's during the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is also called the last stage of the Tudor style.
             Art in Elizabethan days was not only portraits but it was mainly paintings on palaces, ships and painting for festivals. It was an era where they liked surfaces filled with color. Medieval painting had the closest association with religion. Before the sixteenth century there were hardly any portraits of people other than kings, but after Elizabeth started to rule middle class people started to be sculpted and painted. .
             This age marked a distinction between public and private portraits. Public portraits were important to people since others would see them and they needed to be portrayed as a good person. Private portraits were of less importance. The lesser pictures were exchanged among family members and friends. .
             The most important artistic question was the portrayal of the queen. These pictures affected the view of the queen by the whole empire. The pictures were copied over and over so that all the people could see her. The picture of the queen had to look realistic but also be somewhat idealized. Elizabeth went through many artists looking for the one that painted her the best.
             Another form of art was in architecture. "The finest architecture, then, represented a fertilization of native vigour with foreign sophistication, as in music and literature."(Rowse) Architecture during this age had many characteristics. Architecture used many decorative designs around the inside and the outside of the building. Elizabethan architecture was mostly geared toward having symmetry. Churches were built with big windows, high ceilings, and courtyards in the center.
             The demand for music increased greatly during the Elizabethan days. People wanted to have music in their homes.


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1. Fashion Comparison: Elizabethan Era and 2015

During both now and the Elizabethan era, fashion reflects one's status, rank and wealth in the society. ... Higher women could wear expensive velvet, silk, and satin ("Elizabethan Era Clothing of People"). ... Then, they dressed in mini versions of their parents ("Daily Life in the Elizabethan Era" 188). The extreme differences between the social classes of the Elizabethan era are easily distinguished. ... Thus, they wore leather, canvas and fustian ("Men's Fashions in the Elizabethan Era"). ...

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2. Elizabethan Era

In the Elizabethan Era women were to be silent, obedient, and un-educated. ... Shakespeare portrays the female characters in Hamlet as being stereotypical for the Elizabethan time period. ... Gertrude's relationship with her son, Hamlet, displays an accurate portrayal of the way women were treated in the Elizabethan Era. The Era in which women were not respected, as shown in Act 1, Scene 2 ""Seems," madam? ... During the Elizabethan Era women were not allowed to have any personal freedom, and were the property of their fathers, who had the freedom to do whatever they want...

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3. Elizabethan order in macbeth

In the Elizabethan era, people believed that everybody and everything had their own place in the world. ... This idea of the Elizabethan era is known as the "Great Chain of Being". ... The Elizabethan people also had many superstitions. ... Elizabethan people also had unusual practices. ... Through exploring the beliefs, superstitions, values and roles of the Elizabethan society, we come to understand why people of that era say and do certain things. ...

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4. Midsummer Night's Dream

These themes are used currently as well; however during the Elizabethan Era they had very different understandings. ... Compared to men, women were treated as a lower society of persons during the Elizabethan time. ... The Elizabethans had many reasons why the man, particularly the husband was the top authority. ... They are still acknowledged today but not to the extent that the people of the Elizabethan Era took it. ...

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5. Women in the Elizabethan Era

Most accounts of women living in the Elizabethan Era present them as members of society who were designated to do little more than take care of their homes, raise children and tend to the needs of their men. ... Women actors were rare, but Isabelle Adreini was a successful actress during the Elizabethan era. ... She was regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Elizabethan Era. ... Women never let the choke hold of the hierarchical society hold them back in the Elizabethan era. ... Elizabethan era women were hard workers who made sure they did the most they could to make it in a world full ...

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6. Othello and Elizabethan Values

Shakespeare's tragedy Othello demonstrates this, reflecting Elizabethan values which are still relevant in today's society. ... Here, Shakespeare provides a figure to the significant emotion of jealousy, relative to not only Elizabethan societies, but societies of all eras. ... Here Iago suggests that Desdemona is being unfaithful, which does not adhere to Elizabethan values; the era valued truth and integrity, thus it is outrageous that she would be unfaithful. ... This effectively highlights the importance of an individual's status in society, speaking not only for the Elizabe...

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7. An Overview of Elizabethan Medicine

During the Elizabethan Era, the Bubonic plague, Typhus, Malaria, Syphilis, and Smallpox, were some very new and extremely dangerous diseases to the people in Europe. ... "The physicians of the Elizabethan period were men of good education. ... Physicians were very well educated on diseases they have seen before, but during this era many new diseases had arisen. ... "Medicine in this era was very basic. ... In conclusion, Because there was a lot of disease in the Elizabethan Era doctors like the physicians, apothecaries, and surgeons were necessary....

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8. Hamlet

After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era were Hamlet, written by Shakespeare and The Spanish Tragedy, written by Thomas Kyd. ... "There was no author who exercised a wider or deeper influence upon the Elizabethan mind or upon the Elizabethan form of tragedy than did Seneca." ... People should therefore ne...

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9. Othello

Ruth Cowlig suggests that the presentation of Othello as the hero must have been startling for Elizabethan audiences. ... To the Elizabethan's, who thought hierarchically, fair skin was the epitome of beauty and therefore dark skin ranked below it. ... In the Elizabethan era marriage was not just a spiritual union but also a property transaction; the bride brought a dowry from her father and the groom's father (or the groom if he had already inherited his estate) had to settle lands on her in return, as a "jointure." ... Race is represented in many different ways to allow the att...

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