Many millions of people were alive at the same time as Shakespeare. Other famous people who were born in the same year as Shakespeare included Galileo and the playwright Christopher Marlowe. Other famous people who died the same year he did include the Spanish novelist Cervantes, the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the theatre owner Philip Henslowe and the playwrights Francis Beaumont and Tang Xianzu.
Yes, the people who lived during the time of Shakespeare also include millions of people who lived in China, Japan, India, the Ottoman Empire, various African states, and the former Incan empire in Peru.
He lived during the Renaissance period.
As elsewhere, there were many laws in England during Shakespeares time. Far to many to list.
Shakespeare lived during the Renaissance, so everyone he knew, he knew during the renaissance.
The Elizabethan era.
The ruling houses in Shakespeare's time were the Tudors and the Stuarts. Shakespeare lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First (daughter of Henry the Eighth and granddaughter of Henry Tudor) and James Stuart who was James the First of England and Sixth of Scotland and first of the Stuarts on the English throne.
In England alone, about five million people lived at the same time as Shakespeare.
The two English monarchs who lived in Shakespeare's lifetime were Elizabeth I and James I.
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He lived during the Renaissance period.
William Shakespeare lived during the Elizabethan Period.
As elsewhere, there were many laws in England during Shakespeares time. Far to many to list.
Shakespeare lived during the Renaissance, so everyone he knew, he knew during the renaissance.
William Shakespeare lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, from 1564 to 1616. He was a prominent playwright and poet during this time, producing many of his best-known works, such as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet."
Shakespeare lived and wrote in the Elizabethan Era, the English Renaissance.
Shakespeare lived in England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
he lived in Stratford Upon Avon :)
The Elizabethan era.