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historical background - Coggle Diagram

- - - - With a lot of taverns, brothels or theatres, like the Globe-Theatre
      - In this area it was very dangerous at night
    - - The White Hall Palace was the largest palace in Europe
  - - - Flood much of London
    - - People could skate on it
- - - - • divided into four categories, The Nobility, and The Gentry (upper class) and The Yeomen and The Poor (lower class)
      - • social classes were flexible
      - • most people were born into one and stayed there
      - • the social class determined what they wear, where they could live or even the jobs for the children
    - - Lords and ladies
      - Rich and powerful
      - Large households
      - The smallest class
      - Only about 50 noble families during the reign of Elizabeth 1
      - Each family was headed by a Duke, a Baron or an Earl
      - Any person could become a member of the nobility by getting a grant from the queen or the king
      - Nobility titles were hereditary
      - To loose his title it took a high crime, such as treason
      - They lived luxuriously because it was expected from them and to entertain nobility guests on their own expense
      - It was also expected to serve high offices which bought more debt rather than profit
    - - Peculiar feature of English society
      - 5% of the population (knights, squires and gentlemen)
      - The most important class of the Elizabethan Era
      - The key to it was wealth
      - Knights
        
        Originally a military rank, in Elizabethan times ut became a mark of honor
        
        The title could be received from a monarch or a military leader
      - Squires
        
        had knights in their ancestry
      - Gentlemen
        
        people who had become wealthy landowners