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English I: Merchant of Venice

Globe Theatre

Merchant of Venice Vocabulary Flashcards

Elizabethan England - Websites

Elizabethan names:
http://www.st-mike.org/names.html 
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fairnames/surnames.html
 
Elizabeth I: 
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html
http://www.renfaire.com/
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheTudors/ElizabethI.aspx
 
Globe Theatre
http://smartlab.uel.ac.uk/QTVRShakesGlobe/
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-globe-theatre.htm
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm
 
Language: 
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/ 
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/8.html 
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html 
 
Songs: 
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/songs.html
 
Social Classes in Elizabethan England
http://www.brandonsd.mb.ca/crocus/library/social_classes_in_shakespeare.htm 
 
Historical Figures and Events: 
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/histevents.html
 
Elizabethan Medicine
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/abpi/history/history7.html
 
Arts and Architecture: 
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/artsarchitecture.html
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/artsubj.html
 
Crime and Punishment: 
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/everylife.html
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/history/crimeandthelawsubj.html
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/punishment.htm
 
Sports and Entertainment: 
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/Tattershall-tb/cards.html 
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/45.html
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/sportsandentertainment.html
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-sports.htm
 
Hairstyles and Fashions: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-hair-styles.htm
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/hairstyles.html
 
Food and Drink: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-food.htm 
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizfood.html 
http://thelostcolony.org/education/Students/History/Elizabethan_Food.htm
 
Society: 
http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html 
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html 
 
Literature, Art, Music: 
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-classics.htm
 
Marriage/Family/Childhood: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-family-life.htm
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/10.html
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html
 
Education: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-education.htm
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html 
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/14/14
 
Weddings/Betrothals: 
http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/9.html
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-marriages-and-weddings.htm 
 
Religion: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/religion-elizabethan-england.htm
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html 
 
Occupations: 
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-occupations-and-jobs.htm
http://www.st-mike.org/surnames.html
 
Superstitions: 
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/thesupernaturalsubj.html