What kind of jobs were there in Shakespeare's time?

Answer 1

In Shakespeare's time there was a variety of jobs and most of them are similar to moden everyday jobs. Here is a list of jobs used in Shakespeare's times; Builder's, Carpenters, Thatchers, Glaziers, Mason's, Plasters, Milkmaids and Cheesemakers and so on. They also needed Merchants and Carter's and Sailser's & warahousemen, there are lots of other jobs.

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Answer 2

The jobs people had during Shakespeare's time were very much like the jobs of today, although the technology was different. You could go out to eat and drink, but you went to an inn not a hotel. The inn had serving people, and cooks, and chambermaids just like a hotel does nowadays. You could buy clothes, but there were no factories, so the cloth had to be made by hand, from thread made by hand, dyed by hand and sewed by hand. These were all jobs. If you wanted shoes, you could buy them from a shoemaker who had to buy the leather from someone who made leather. If you wanted gloves, you could buy them from a glover, like Shakespeare's father.

London was as it still is a great port, with shipbuilding as an important industry. Ships carried trade goods to and from the city; people worked on the docks and at warehouses, and as traders shipping goods away and receiving it and selling it to smaller merchants. Business was business and there were plenty of businessmen. They needed moneylenders too, although banking had not developed the technology it had now, and where you have loans, you have the need for lawyers, judges, officers of the law and prisons, with prison attendants. There were plenty of theives, so they needed lots of security guards, especially as there was no police force as we know it.

The centre of the government was at Westminster, not far from London, and even in those days, there was a need for clerks and civil servants to keep the government running. And to send messages they needed couriers--lots of them.

More than nowadays, the houses of the wealthy needed many servants to keep them running.

And, of course, you could get a job in the entertainment industry. That's what Shakespeare did.

Answer 3

Apart from the actors, there had to be some people to run the box office (in the case of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, this was probably Richard Burbage's brother Cuthbert), and there were also tiremen and tirewomen to fix and clean the costumes. They might have employed scribes to write out the parts or "sides" for the actors. Musicians were sometimes employed where the members of the company could not provide. There were jobs for carpenters in repairing the theatre building, although this was not the responsibility of the theatre company but rather of the theatre owners. Other odd jobs such as moving scenery, making sound effects, holding horses etc. could be done by the 'prentices and hired men.

Answer 4

There was actually a broad variety of jobs available in those days. One reason was that things were manufactured by craftsmen who learned to make those particular things. For example, Shakespeare's father was a glover--he was skilled in making gloves. He was also a whittawer, skilled in making fine leathers. There were hundreds of different trades, each requiring a great deal of training. A skilled tradesman was justifiably proud of his trade.

Since people need the same sorts of things now as they did then, many jobs were similar. People needed buildings, so carpenters, thatchers, glaziers, masons, plasterers and many others were needed to build them. People needed food, so farmers and shepherds and dairymen and milkmaids and cheesemakers and butchers and millers and bakers were needed. And people needed clothes, so they needed fullers and weavers and tailors and milliners and so on. Plus sometimes goods needed to come from abroad, so they needed merchants and carters and sailors and warehousemen. And sometimes goods needed to be sold by retail which meant they needed chapmen and other direct sellers. The churches needed clergy and lay people; the government needed clerks ( a lot of them when everything had to be recorded by hand) and administrators, spies and taxmen, people with ceremonial functions and people who did the dirty work.

Quite a lot of options, really.

Answer 5

SOME JOBS IN William Shakespeare'S TIME WAS I THINK ACTING SINCE IM DOING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT I THINK ACTING AND FARMING WOULD BE GOOD JOBS IN HIS TIME.

Answer 6

The most common jobs had to do with farming. By far the largest part of the population in Shakespeare's day and indeed up to very recently was involved in agriculture.