Life in Shakespeare's England: Web Sites For Students

 

 

Elizabethan Society in General

 

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge - [games, food, money, religion, language, weddings, masters and servants, occupations, the peers, London, fashion, household management, pastimes, names, queen's suitors, education, heraldry]

 

Elizabethan Era   [entertainment, music, sports, theater, clothes, education, medicine, marriage customs, superstitions, witchcraft, astrology, tortures, famous people, war, weapons, navy, Spanish Armada]

 

Elizabethan Era - Virtual Library   -  [architecture, art, biography, childhood and education, clothing, crime and punishment, food and drink, religion, daily life, science and medicine, theater, women]

 

Elizabethan England - [everyday life, historical figures and events, arts and architecture]

 

Elizabethan Life in Britain - [nobles, middle class, houses]

 

Tudor History - [architecture, food, music, Tudor Monarchs]

 

Shakespeare's Life and Times - [stage, marriage and family, court life, city life, country life, art, and music]

 

Tudor England - [famous people, religion, theater]

 

Elizabethan and Jacobean England - [overview of society and history of the time period, esp. religion and economics]

 

Queen Elizabeth I - Life and times of Elizabeth I

  

Women

 

Life of Women in Tudor England

 

Elizabethan Women

 

Weddings

 

Elizabethan Weddings

 

Weddings and Betrothals

 

Elizabethan Wedding Customs

 

Social Class

 

The Poor in Elizabethan England

 

Elizabethan England : The Social Classes

 

 

Theater

 

Shakespeare's Theaters

 

Shakespeare and the Globe

 

Globe Theater

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Tyburn Tree - Public Execution in Early Modern England

 

Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England

 

Tower of London

 

Crime and the Law

 

Medicine

 

Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England

 

Popular Medicine - The Tudor Group

Music

 

Elizabethan Music

 

Renaissance Music

 

The High Renaissance (16th Century)

 

 

Entertainment and Recreation

 

Elizabethan Times

 

Gambling in Elizabethan Times

 

Smoking in Elizabethan England

 

Fencing and Dueling

 

Elizabethan Fencing and the Art of Defense

 

The Duello in Elizabethan England - [sword fights/ duels]

 

Playing the Prize

 

Wayne Anderson's Guide to Swords for the Englizabethan Gentleman

 

Primary Sources on Fencing and Dueling

 

Religion

 

Religion from Life in Elizabethan England

 

Religion from Britain Express

 

The Tudor Church

 

Clothing and Dress

 

16th Century Northern European/Rennaissance Costume Links

 

Elizabethan Costume Gallery

 

Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes - [dress laws]

 

Elizabethan Makeup

 

Architecture

 

A History of British Architecture

 

How We Built Britain - Tudors and Stuarts

 

The Spanish Armada

  

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

 

Spanish Armada - Elizabeth I

 

Spanish Armada - History on the Net

 

The Spanish Armada - Britainexpress.com

 

Sir Francis Drake

 

Francis Drake

 

Francis Drake - National Maritime Museum

 

Captain Sir Francis Drake

 

Drake's Voyage - The voyage

 

Henry VIII

 

Henry VIII from Britannia

 

Henry VIII from Luminarium

 

The Tudors - Henry VIII

 

Henry VIII - from Britain Express

 

Henry VIII from History of the Monarchy

 

Six Wives of Henry VIII

 

Elizabeth I

 

Elizabeth I from Luminarium

 

Elizabeth I from Elizabeth I Organization

 

Elizabeth I from Britannnia

 

Elizabeth I from History of the Monarchy

 

James I of England (James VI of Scotland)

 

James I from History of the Monarchy

 

James I from Luminarium

 

James I from Shakespeare's Life and Times

 

James I from Britannia