What was shakespeare's culture like?

Answer 1

He was a sixteenth-century Englishman. Not surprisingly, he lived in a sixteenth-century English culture, in a period of flowering of the use of the English language and the establishment of that language as a literary language, as well as music and the other arts. In a larger sense, the culture he lived in mostly was the culture of a rapidly growing city, with the usual civic problems of dirt and crime. It was also an era of rapid economic change and the rise of middle class and nouveau riche families, as well as a period of intellectual and religious ferment.

Basically, there was a lot going on and things changed rapidly.