Daily Life:
Daily life is also extremely different today than in the 1600s. A normal 13-year-old, like Juliet, would probably be in eighth grade, and a 17-year-old, like Romeo would be a senior in High School. A relationship between an eighth grader and a senior is unheard of in today’s society. As hard as it is for us to imagine, relationships like this were pretty common in the 1600’s. Today, most boys and girls that age are worrying about homework or upcoming tests. In wealthy families both boys and girls went to a school called a petty school when they were young. Upper class girls and boys were taught by tutors, which is probably how Romeo and Juliet were taught. Middle class girls usually were taught by their mothers. However, in the late1600's girls were learning writing, music and needlework, in boarding schools. Boys learned to sword fight, fence, and usually went to grammar school.
In the 1600's games included cards and bowls, they also played board games, like chess. Also, people stated going to the theater to watch plays. Only men could be actors, so men often had to play as women. Today, men and women often where pants and a shirt on a normal day. In the 17th Century, Women wore a linen garment called a shift, and over it they wore long dresses. Men wore knee length, trouser like garments called breeches, and wore stockings and boots. Today we use utensils to eat our food ( unless it's fingure-food). But in the early 1600's people started using forks for the first time! The wealthy had more of a range of foods, like pineapples and bananas in Elizabethan Era, but the poor ate bread and pottage (a kind of stew). Average life expectancy at birth was only 35 years old in the 1600's, and today it is around 79 years old. Daily life has definitely changed drastically since the 1600's.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GB7lXMn0jnA/UQNKX5ibY7I/AAAAAAABXAs/JrGDEbUu9XU/s1600/1o%2B1621%2BDirck%2BHals%2B%2528Dutch%2BBaroque%2BEra%2Bpainter%252C%2B1591-1656%2529%2BAmusing%2BParty%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGarden.jpg
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN
http://www.ehow.com/list_7786921_social-activities-elizabethan-times.html
http://www.localhistories.org/stuart.html
Daily life is also extremely different today than in the 1600s. A normal 13-year-old, like Juliet, would probably be in eighth grade, and a 17-year-old, like Romeo would be a senior in High School. A relationship between an eighth grader and a senior is unheard of in today’s society. As hard as it is for us to imagine, relationships like this were pretty common in the 1600’s. Today, most boys and girls that age are worrying about homework or upcoming tests. In wealthy families both boys and girls went to a school called a petty school when they were young. Upper class girls and boys were taught by tutors, which is probably how Romeo and Juliet were taught. Middle class girls usually were taught by their mothers. However, in the late1600's girls were learning writing, music and needlework, in boarding schools. Boys learned to sword fight, fence, and usually went to grammar school.
In the 1600's games included cards and bowls, they also played board games, like chess. Also, people stated going to the theater to watch plays. Only men could be actors, so men often had to play as women. Today, men and women often where pants and a shirt on a normal day. In the 17th Century, Women wore a linen garment called a shift, and over it they wore long dresses. Men wore knee length, trouser like garments called breeches, and wore stockings and boots. Today we use utensils to eat our food ( unless it's fingure-food). But in the early 1600's people started using forks for the first time! The wealthy had more of a range of foods, like pineapples and bananas in Elizabethan Era, but the poor ate bread and pottage (a kind of stew). Average life expectancy at birth was only 35 years old in the 1600's, and today it is around 79 years old. Daily life has definitely changed drastically since the 1600's.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GB7lXMn0jnA/UQNKX5ibY7I/AAAAAAABXAs/JrGDEbUu9XU/s1600/1o%2B1621%2BDirck%2BHals%2B%2528Dutch%2BBaroque%2BEra%2Bpainter%252C%2B1591-1656%2529%2BAmusing%2BParty%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGarden.jpg
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN
http://www.ehow.com/list_7786921_social-activities-elizabethan-times.html
http://www.localhistories.org/stuart.html