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  2. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen ... Poor men, women, and children begged in the cities, as ...

  3. Boy player - Wikipedia

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    In the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, troupes appeared that were composed entirely of boy players. They are famously mentioned in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which a group of travelling actors has left the city due to rivalry with a troupe of "little eyases" (II, ii, 339); the term "eyas" means an unfledged hawk.

  4. Breeching (boys) - Wikipedia

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    For working-class children, about whom even less is known than their better-off contemporaries, it may well have marked the start of a working life. The debate between his parents over the breeching of the hero of Tristram Shandy (1761) suggests that the timing of the event could be rather arbitrary; in this case it is his father who suggests ...

  5. History of childhood - Wikipedia

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    In England during the Elizabethan era, the transmission of social norms was a family matter and children were taught the basic etiquette of proper manners and respecting others. [5] Some boys attended grammar school , usually taught by the local priest. [ 6 ]

  6. Children of Paul's - Wikipedia

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    The Children of Paul's was the name of a troupe of boy actors in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Along with the Children of the Chapel , they were an important component of the companies of boy players that constituted a distinctive feature of English Renaissance theatre .

  7. Tudor period - Wikipedia

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    The cultural achievements of the Elizabethan era have long attracted scholars, and since the 1960s they have conducted intensive research on the social history of England. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] Main subjects within Tudor social history includes courtship and marriage , the food they consumed and the clothes they wore . [ 80 ]

  8. Dame school - Wikipedia

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    Dame school pupils were the children of tradesmen and labouring parents, and in many cases, a dame school education was the only form of education these children ever received. [7] The teacher would offer class for several hours per the day. In class, she would teach her pupils reading and writing, often from a hornbook. [3]

  9. Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.