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- Theatre before Shakespeare's time was performed in the churches by the clergy, especially at Christmas and Easter, in inn courtyards by members ofthe local trade guilds - these
plays were often religious in their contents too and at noblemen's houses or at court. There were no public theatres.

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How's the univers organized: se billede

The Elizabethan world picture was a simplified version of how the Middle Ages thought the Greek philosopher Aristotle had imagined the universe.

The picture shows us the earth with water in the middle surrounded by the two other basic elements, air and fire. All earthly things were believed to be composed of these four elements in varying relations and degrees. Above the four elements we see the heavenly spheres from the moon up to the Primum Mobile

How's the society organized:
Corresponding to the hierarchy in heaven we find an order or hierarchy of the same kind on earth. The society also had a hierarchy

1. The sovereign (prince, king or emperor
2. Noblemen and clergy (kirkefolk)
3. Landowners
4. Merchants (handelsfolk)
5. Artisants (håndværkere)
6. Labourers
7. serfs (slaves)

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- The Puritans emigrated to the new-found world of America either because of persecution or because they were dissatisfied with church affairs at home
-  The earliest of the Puritan settlements was Plymouth
-  The first colony was called Virginia to celebrate the virgin Queen Elizabeth.
-  The Puritans mostly settled in areas north of Virginia, whereas the southern states were settled by the English nobility who ran cotton, to- bacco and sugar plantations by means of slaves imported from West Africa.

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- Business in a modern sense began to develop
- London became a metropolitan market and with this development came also the need for  new trading routes and new trading partners
- Trading companies were established in what later became colonies - the african companies  developed the slave trade,  the East India Company

established set up silk, cotton, china and carpet factories on the Indian mainland.

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- The english reformation mainly took place for political reasons.
-  Henry the Vlll did not get along with the pope and broke it of with him beacuse  Henry didn't got his way with the pope.
-  He also wanted to emphasize his power in opposition to the two great rivals on the continent, the kings of France and Spain. Although the monastries were closed and their lands shared out to noblemen, the Reformation never took the violent form it did on the continent.