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The World of Romeo & Juliet
THE MAN
Brief
Biographical Information
Shakespeare’s Life In Context (you can also link to Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare’s hometown)
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Online
Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust
(frequently asked questions about the man and his times)
Shakespeare's Influence (Shakespeare invented more than 1700 words now in common usage--learn more about them here)
THE
PLAY
Shakespeare
Illustrated (artists’ depictions of scenes from Romeo and
Juliet)
Shakespeare Online (examines themes of light, destiny, etc.)
THE TIME PERIOD
Elizabethan
England (includes other links)
Life in Elizabethan England (scroll down the list of contents for information about family life, language, clothing, food, games, money, how patronage works, and more)
Renaissance
Faire ~ Check out songs
about the Elizabethan time, proper Elizabethan
accents, Elizabethan
Insults, and more
Medieval Italy’s City-States (the setting of Romeo & Juliet)
HOME & SOCIETY
Women’s lives in
Renaissance
Italy, England, and
Sixteenth Century France
"Educating
Shakespeare"
(what
education was like in Shakespeare's time; learn
about the school he attended, typical punishments, and more)
St.
Ives Historical Society (essays
on peasant life in Elizabethan England, superstitions of the Elizabethan period,
and more
Vendettas (click here to learn how a vendetta over a marriage arrangement brought chaos to the city of Florence)
Banishment
/ Exile (explanation). Dante—author
of the Divine Comedy—was banished from Florence. Read about it here
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Last modified on 05.07.2008