Intro+To+Shakespeare

What is your religion? Christian
====How has your religion affected your life in terms of how you are treated by people in power? Did not change, considered more powerful than catholics or jewish people. ====

How are you dressed when you attend the play? A Corset made from whale bone and a gown with heavy cut velvets, lace and silver embroidery.
====Describe some of the costumes the actors wear.As soon as an actor walked on the stage the fabric and color of his clothing would indicate the role of the character he was playing - Elizabethan Nobles and Upper classes wore clothing made of velvets, furs, silks, lace, cottons and taffeta. ==== ====You are planning to go to a ball (fancy dance party) after the play. How will you dress for that? A corset, a Doublet, A fancy velvet dress with a frilled collar. ====

How much did you pay for your ticket? 2-3 denarius
====Where did you sit? [|Gray's Inn Theatre], London one of the seats around the back of the theater. ==== ====A number of your friends chose to spend the afternoon seeing another kind of entertainment, What was it? there was something to celebrate! A betrothal, wedding, victories and festivals. ====

Who ruled England at the time? Queen Elizabeth
====What was some gossip about the ruler? It was widely believed during her reign that Elizabeth had an affair with Robert Dudley. He was at the time married and his wife later died under mysterious circumstances. It was rumored that she took part in her death but never confirmed. ====

==== Today was a wonderful day, the sun was out, not a cloud in the sky. Yesterday the cook had made a trip to several different markets and today prepared a special breakfast of fruit, bread, meat, and a glass of wine for my father and I. I received a ticket to the newest play Othello, a gift from my father for getting a job last week, a parson at our family Christian church. I'd hoped to see this play, I'd seen a black flag put up outside Gray's Inn Theatre meaning there is a tragedy playing today! Some friends of mine were also going to this play so I decided to dress a bit more formal than usual, I wore a corset, farthingale and a beautiful gown I'd recently bought, made from silk with purple embroidery and white lace. I rode in my carriage and picked up some friends along the way, when we got there we all said hello and chatted about the recent things that had happened in our lives. We got very excited for the play, there was hundreds of people waiting outside the theatre and when we got in we took our seats around the middle. Tragedies are my favorite plays to watch, you see more emotion in the actors that can draw back to your real life, of course I've never been married so I do not know what it was like to have a lover taken away from you but watching tragedies can completely change your perspective on things, which is why I love them. Othello was one of these type plays, one that hit me hard. There was a big message in it this play it showed how strong hatred, jealousy and racism is. Othello was a black man who is referred to with the derogatory name of a Moor, This reference is a person of Arabic decent living in North Africa who is of a Muslim religion and who is of an uncultured, crude, coarse, and cruel background. The play was a battle between good and evil, Sometimes what you see is what you get and other times it may not show up in black and white but there may always be the possibility of blood red. The play was a great success just as expected, it easily became my favorite from the many tragedies I've seen including Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth. At the end everyone stood up and applauded the actors, a truly well done performance. When I got home I thanked my father for the ticket. we had dinner together and I got ready for bed. ====