Shakespeare
What social class did Shakespeare mostly focus on in his plays?
The nobility/gentry.
What determined your opportunities and status in the Elizabethan Era?
Your bloodline/birth.
Who was at the top of the six classes?
The monarch (the Queen).
How were lower-class characters often used in Shakespeare’s plays?
For comedic relief.
What was the “middle class” called?
Yeomanry.
Which class included traders and shopkeepers with significant wealth?
Merchants.
What two ideas about class did Shakespeare explore in his plays?
Social mobility and class tension.
Who had to give consent for lower-class people to change jobs?
Their lord.
Name one of the lowest social groups in the Elizabethan Era.
Servants or laborers/the poor.