Poorer people wore the same kinds of clothes as anyone else: pants and shirts, dresses and skirts, jackets (called doublets) or cloaks, boots and shoes. The poor were forbidden by law to wear colours obtained with expensive dyes or expensive foreign fabrics or clothing adorned with expensive furs or jewellery. Only the very rich were allowed to dress like that. Plain-woven woolens or linens, dyed with vegetable dyes (and thus usually browns, greens and yellows) would be the fabrics worn by the poorest people.
Everyone who loved theater. There was theater for the poor and theater for the rich.
what was the culture of the people in shakespeare time
Pretty tough. There was no social support for the poorest. You starved, and had to either beg or steal to get food. Shakespeare's portrayal of "Poor Tom" gives some idea of the situation of Bedlam beggars.
England may have had around five million in 1600.
Rich people would pay the expenses of writers or artists. They were the patrons of the arts.
Everyone who loved theater. There was theater for the poor and theater for the rich.
what was the culture of the people in shakespeare time
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Pretty tough. There was no social support for the poorest. You starved, and had to either beg or steal to get food. Shakespeare's portrayal of "Poor Tom" gives some idea of the situation of Bedlam beggars.
England may have had around five million in 1600.
Rich people would pay the expenses of writers or artists. They were the patrons of the arts.
Immediately before entering the theatre. People paid at the door to get in. You couldn't get advance tickets.
Many people believed in the supernatural. Shakespeare reflects this in some of the scenes in his plays.
strossers
The usual things: diseases (plague and syphilis were big ones), accidents, old age.
begged for money. what do poor people nomaly do
He was a policeman of sorts.