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Elizabethan England
• People were smaller
• Average man 5’6”
• Average woman 4’8”
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Elizabethan (Shakespeare’s) England
•Life was not as glamorous
•No indoor plumbing.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Roofs were straw “thatch.”
• Pet dogs and cats, mice, rats, and bugs lived in the roof.
• If it rained the roof got slippery and it rained “cats and dogs.”
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Nothing to stop animal droppings from landing on one’s bed
• Attached posts with a sheet on top, creating a “canopy’ to catch the animal doo-doo.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Folks slept in beds cross-wise
• Anne Hathaway, had a queen-sized bed she shared with two sisters and six servant girls before she married Will Shakespeare.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Anne Hathaway’s 6 brothers shared their room with 30 field workers. They all slept on the floor wrapped in blankets.
• There was no indoor heating beyond the ambient body heat.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• The floor of most thatched houses was dirt. Only the wealthy could afford slate flooring.
• Everybody else was “dirt poor.”
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Slate floors slippery when it rained.
• Spread “thresh” (straw) to keep from slipping.
• A piece of the wood at the door kept the thresh from slipping out, acting as a “thresh hold”.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• People cooked over a fire in the fireplace.
• They hung a kettle over the fire and everyday added stuff to the kettle.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Mostly folks ate veggies. Meat was scarce.
• They ate stew and then the leftovers stayed in the pot for as long as a month.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Once in awhile they got some pork. They’d display the luxury bacon on a rack in the parlor to show it off.
• Sign of wealth if someone “could bring home the bacon”
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom, family got the middle, and guests got the “upper crust.”
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Lead drinking cups caused a powerful reaction with whiskey or ale
• Knocked out the drinker for days.
• Couldn’t tell if they unconscious person was dead or alive.
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• They laid out the unconscious person on the kitchen table to see if they would “wake” from it. They held a “wake.”
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• England is old and small. They started running out of places to bury people.
• So they dug up old graves to reuse. They noticed some of the old coffins had “scratch marks” on the inside. OOOPS!
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Elizabethan EnglandAt Home
• Tied a string to the corpse’s wrist that was attached to a bell “topside.”
• Someone had to sit near the grave in case the bell rang, in essence doing a “graveyard shift.”
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Elizabethan EnglandHygiene
• People usually bathed once-a-year, in May.
• Men first, then women, then the kids – in the same water.
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Elizabethan EnglandHygiene
• As the water got dirtier, and dirtier, they had to be careful not to “ throw out the baby with the bathwater.”
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Elizabethan EnglandHygiene
• Most weddings were in June, when couple and the guests were still relatively body odor-free.
• It was believed baths caused illness.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentMusic
Folks were expected to be musical, to be able to read and play music. Almost everyone could play the recorder or lute and sing in 8-part harmony.
Barbers kept lutes customers could play while they waited for a new do.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentFashion
• Fashion was a major pastime. Most Elizabethans wore their fortunes on their backs. They’d rather be well-dressed and penniless than rich and poorly dressed.
• Most folks dressed in the clothing of the social class above them.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentCards
• People loved playing cards and frequently bet on the outcome.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentTennis
• Tennis was played on a walled court with a roof and was very popular when it arrived as an import from France.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentBear Baiting
• Bull- or Bear-baiting was popular.
• Dog turned loose on a tethered bull or bear. People bet on the dog or the bear.
• Dogs became famous for evading death: The Great Sackerson, Tom of Lincoln, and Harry Hunks were famous.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentPublic Executions
• Public executions were hugely popular and drew large audiences.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentCock Fighting
• Cock fighting was the rage! People bet in the fights between specially-bred roosters with sharpened beaks and metal spurs.
• School boys were encouraged to bring their birds to school for fights. People bet on the fights.
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Elizabethan EntertainmentHuman Competition
•Sporting opponents thumped each other with cudgels and quarterstaffs (very bloody).
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Elizabethan Entertainment“Football”
• Opposing sides tried to get a leather ball from one end of town to the other, while fighting each other. Fights resulted in broken bones and damaged businesses.