What were girls educated in during shakespeares time?

Answer 1

It depends on the girl. Queen Elizabeth, and other girls of the royalty and nobility, learned languages, including Latin, Greek, French and Italian, music, dance, history and contemporary political geography, as well as etiquette and manners, all needed by anyone in the upper crust.

Girls who were born to beggars and other members of the underworld learned skills like pickpocketing, purse cutting, and running a con. They might also learn the skills needed to be a prostitute.

Those between the highest and the lowest, which is most of the girls at the time, would learn from their mothers the skills and techniques needed to run a household: cooking, cleaning, making and repairing clothing, managing a household economy. Bear in mind that they had to do all of those things without any labour-saving devices whatsoever, and for the most part without being able to go down to a shop and buy ready made things. If they needed a shirt, they had to make it from scratch. Food required considerable preparation, and there were no refrigerators to preserve it. Very few people nowadays would have the skills necessary to do this job which was absolutely essential to every household.