It was dirty, plauge infested, smelly sewers, desises, dangerous, murderous. Poor pesents couldn't afford clean clothes, no music, food or even a bed! when rich people (there were very few of them) came home to all they can eat meat in there big palace home. A lot of rich people got dibeties then from eating an overload of meat which dropped the numbers, also London was just a poor city with 100's of poor people!
Queen Elizabeth I
Spain
Elizabeth 1 was queen when Shakespeare was alive.
It was Queen Elizabeth I, and after 1603, Queen Anne, the consort of James I.
in England
Queen Elizabeth I
Spain
England was a Constitutional Monarchy, and still is. That is to say, that they had a king or queen, but the legislature (like the American Congress) was more powerful and made most of the laws.
Elizabeth 1 was queen when Shakespeare was alive.
Like Shakespeare, they were born in England.
It was Queen Elizabeth I, and after 1603, Queen Anne, the consort of James I.
in England
The USA did not exist as such during Shakespeare's lifetime so there was no president of the USA. England/UK has never had a president, and during Shakespeare's lifetime there was no such position as prime minister.
First, to be clear, Shakespeare had only one wife, not wives. Anne Shakespeare, like everyone else in England at the time, belonged to the Church of England.
Shakespeare did his work in London to keep William Shakespeare alive.
Yes, England ended up in a war with Spain during Shakespeare's lifetime. The Spanish sent a huge fleet, the Spanish Armada, to assist in ferrying a Spanish army to England, but bad weather and persistent attacks from the English caused it to fail. This was in 1588 when Shakespeare was 24.
He was born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and died during the reign of King James I.