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ASSIGNMENT: 1) Read my lecture below; 2) Using Google, do the research to which you are assigned below; 3) Using the form below, please give me an overview of what you've learned about your topic. A paragraph will be fine. However, DO NOT JUST COPY FROM YOUR RESEARCH! It is important to me that you express what you've learned in YOUR OWN WORDS. And be sure to offer/share your opinion/reactions. See grading rubrics on the home page for grading criteria and expectations.
Topic 5: Elizabethan Laws (Do this topic if the first letter of your last name begins with S through Z)
What types of laws governed the people of the Renaissance?
What types of punishments could they expect?
What Elizabethan laws had relevance to the theater and actors?
Life During The Renaissance
The English Renaissance occurred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I who ruled for 45 years from 1558 to 1603. Thus, this period is called the Elizabethan era. After this, King James ruled (the Jacobean period). Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616 in this period of rich development of European culture that marked the end of the Middle Ages. In Shakespeare: A to Z, Charles Boyce describes the Renaissance as follows: