Shakespeare's time
The Chain of Being
- Concept from the Middle Age
- Gods idea of a strict hierarchy
- God
- Angles
- Humans
- Monarchs
- Nobles, Churchmen
- Gentlemen
- Commoners
- Animals
- Plants
- Stones
- men are superior to women
- accepting your stage is rewarded by God
Religion
- believe in God
- Concept of heaven and hell
- England was a Protestant country
- Reformation movement
- fights for religion
- no public office jobs for Catholics
- Puritans
- Church didn't gone far enough
- eliminate bishops, ceremonial robes
- sins: seeing plays, drinking, gambling, fine clothes
Myths and Magic
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Little and Large
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English Renaissance
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