Elizabethan theatre
There was the nobility/gentry and the lower classes. However, many merchants and town folk were becoming so wealthy via trade and services that they could ape the manners of the upper class and enjoy many of the same luxuries.
Elizabethans were very superstitious and attracted to the fanciful and the occult. Charms and amulets were often worn. Signs and omens were taken seriously. Anything out of the ordinary could be taken as an omen - it was bad luck to hear a toad croak or an owl hoot. Many things could signal on impending death, like blood dripping three times from a nose, a red or bloody moon. Remedies were often based on folk tradition - tumors could be removed by stroking with a corpse's hand. Feeding on snakes could restore your youth.
Both public and private schools were becoming more and more available for the lower classes and those who could not afford private tutors.
In cities and towns, homes were usually built of timber and plaster. The merchant's shop was in the front part of the house on the ground level, rooms opened into one another and weren't the modern conventions of doors opening on a hallway.
Elizabethan folk loved a good festival. There were regular fairs called ales, at which ale (the staple beverage of the time) was consumed heavily.
Elizabethan folk also loved group sports such as football. Elizabethan's also loved music, both instrumental and vocal, and dancing. The higher orders and those trying to imitate them like upper middle class were fond of Italian and French dances.
Elizabethan plays:
-Hamlet
-Macbeth
-The Tempest
-King John
-Richard II
-The Spanish Tragedy
-The Jew of Malta
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