life in eliz era

• what were parts of the golden age


  Change in fashion set by the queen

  Londons population grew

  gentry became more important

  more money spent

  Invention of the printing oress
• 3 steps to Golden Age

  fall of the nobility - as they were marginalised which left a gap to promote the gentry's power (including people like Walsingham and Cecil )

  Dissolution of the monasteries - meant more land was available ( land symboled money, power, status )

  Increasing wealth - led to the growth of trade and helped the gentry's make their fortune to build grand houses
• The Theatre


  " YARD " for the groundlings to get cheap tickets + nasty conditions

  " FLAG " signalled a performance

  " GALLERY " more expensive and comfortable seats

  " UPPER STAGE " for nobility to watch from

  
• Fashion shift


  E was the trendsetter like the rotten teeth

  gentry wore expensive outfits to show status

  Impractical clothing
• Architecture shift


  "The Great Rebuilding"

  more wealth = more houses

  E shaped house

  houses designed to impress E on her visit

  Hardwick hall has 'more glass than wall'
• Theatre shift


  license law formed companies

  only on the south of the river where there were no authorities

  all theatres were designed with a hierarchal structure

  Playwrights like Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare
• Art shift


  Painting used as a form of propaganda

  E shown to be 'god-like' and only accepted certain pictures

  Nobility payed for the paintings
• Book shift


  literature flourished

  More poetry

  censorship over printing press

  Famous books like John fox with the book of martyrs
• causes of the poor

  43% population increase

  no help from the church due to the disolution

  value of money fell as spanish brought more gold into circulation

  post war lack of trade and employment

  harvest failures
• attitudes towards the poor

  viewed as criminals

  'abraham men' faked being mad and were often half nacked

  seen as vagabonds

  rich didn't want the poor near them
• scale of the poor

  the labouring poor were half the families in tudor england

  food prices increased by over 250%

  population increase by over a million
• solutions for the poor

  previously they were branded with a v on their forehead and made a slave

  during the poor local measures were made like alm houses and hospitals

  after punishments still remained but the 1597 poor law was passed and amended in 1601 so that everyone had to pay poor-rates to get workhouses built and apprenticeships for orphans
• reasons for exploration


  prove the world wasn't flat

  find opposite trade routes so no tax paid at the Ottoman Turks

  printing press meant maps could be made with the facts

  people became adventurous
• exploration examples

  Bartholomew Diaw sailed around Africa to prove you would not fall off in 1487

  Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies in 1492

  The east india company 1600

  Spain and Portugal dominated exploration
• reasons why english joined in on exploration

  defense purposes (built a navy)

  motivated by greed and money

  new trading partners and routes in the east

  discover north west passage to china
• who were the big 3 in exploration

  John Hawkins - cousin of Sir Francis Drake, helped defeat Spanish Armada and entered England into the slave trade ( knighted )

  Sir Francis Drake - strict puritan, came back with 40,000 worth of Spanish silver , hero + el Draco

  Sir Walter Raleigh - key role in exploring the New World and colonising north America ( named Virginia after E )