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+# Shake Speare
+
+## Taking Point Form Notes
+
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+- Use your **```OWN WORDS```** Do not simply copy from the sources.
+- Do **```NOT```** write in full sentences.
+- Use **```HEADINGS```** and subhearings to separate and label points.
+- Include **```DEFINITIONS```** of all unfamiliar terms.
+- Use **```ABBREVIATIONS```** whenever possible, but make sure you now what they mean.
+- Include **```DIAGRAMS```** or **```CHARTS```** of material when appropriate, but be sure to label them clearly.
+- Include **```EXAMPLES```** that make sense to you whenever possible.
+- Always **```WRITE NEATLY```** enough that someone else could read your notes.
+- You must be able to **```EXPLAIN```** the notes to someone else.
+
+# Intro To Shakespeare
+
+## William Shakespeare
+- Was born 1564 - 1616
+- Married Ann hathway and had 3 kids
+- Wrote 57 plays, 154 sonnets and two longer poems
+
+## Politics and Religions
+- Great Chain of being
+  - Greatly religious time
+  - The ladder of intellect
+    - The god was at the top
+    - Then angels
+    - Heaven
+    - Human
+    - Beast
+    - Plant
+    - Flame
+    - Stone
+- Hierachal Order
+  - God
+    - was on top of all of society
+    - They believed God picked the kings
+  - King
+    - Everyone needed to obeyed the king, as if they didn't, they would be going aganist god
+  - Nobles
+    - picked by the kings
+  - Merchants
+    - cannot wear the clothing of nobles
+  - Peasants
+    - cannot wear the clothing of merchants and above
+
+## Henry The 8th VIII
+  - Had 8 diffferent wives
+  - Was not alive during shakespeares time
+  - Had a patriot
+  - Woman and children were under the ownership of the hubsband
+  - He started his own religion
+    - this is why only catholic people are not supposed to be divorced
+  - Become the head of the church of his religion
+  - He executed woman for not giving him a son
+  - Cod-piece: push up bra for male genatalia
+ 
+## Elizabeth I
+- "Female Prince"
+- Patron of the arts
+  - gave alot of money to artist
+  - reason why we can see alot of shakespeares plays, as she would pay him
+- Would pay actors and writers to perform for her
+  - Woman couldn't go into theatres, due to woman are "weak", which meant they were easily manipulated
+- Didn't get married because she has 10000 iq
+
+## James I
+- Succeeded Elizatbeth
+- Shakespeare had to tailor to a female monarch and a male monarch
+- Themes needed to please the ruler
+- Brutal man
+- Wrote a book how to identify witches and torture them
+- Femenist
+
+## Fashion
+- Clothes never washed
+- Collars
+  - to prevent lice to jump down
+- High heels for the rich
+  - were meant for men
+- White paint for face
+- Foreheads were shaved
+- Dropping poison in their eyes to make their iris bigger
+- Underwear hasn't been invented yet
+
+## Living Conditions
+- No toilets
+- Bathing almost never happened
+  - Water was often poisonous.... people avoided it.
+- Baths were out of the question. People drank beer/ale instead of water.
+
+## Bubonic Plague
+- Also called the black deaths
+- Fleas, rats, ships, infecetion
+- Killed millions of people
+- 85 - 90% population of a village would be dead in 2 - 3 weeks
+- some of them believed this was a punishment from god
+- Ring around the Rosie
+  - A lullaby talking about the plague
+
+## So to stay entertained
+- They made dogs and bears fight to stay enteratined
+- Bull baiting and Bear baiting
+- Struggled with ampathy
+- Executions
+- Men will talk women and children to watch the execution, and then bring them back home and beat them to remember the lesson
+
+## The Globe Theatre
+- Shakespeares theatre
+- Poor people can sit on the gorund
+- Rich people can sit in seats
+- Never see 2 things on stage
+  - Never see any authority killed
+  - Never see any anti religious things
+-  
+