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Thread ID: 58325 2005-05-28 07:05:00 Elizabethan Times - Anyone know anything? Renmoo (66) PC World Chat
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359215 2005-05-28 07:05:00 Greetings people, my sister has to complete her English assignment involving so-called "Elizabethan Times". She had tried googling for it, but not much positive results came back. (I haven't check on that yet) Below is the key questions she needs to answer.

What kind of education does the children have?
what is the difference between the education now and then?
What influences on the subjects that the students have chosen on them?

I am hoping that senior members like Terry and Graham_L have something to tell. Much thanks.

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
359216 2005-05-28 07:18:00 I don't think even Terry and Graham would have been around in the 1600s :D

Try these

www.william-shakespeare.info

www.chatham-nj.org

sorry about the URLs but I cant get the url function to work
Morgenmuffel (187)
359217 2005-05-28 07:24:00 Although they probably sometimes feel like they were!! :D

Did you try Google Scholar??

Cheers,

Marnie
Marnie (4574)
359218 2005-05-28 07:30:00 I don't think even Terry and Graham would have been around in the 1600s :D

Okay, my sister didn't tell me it was 1600, I thought it was 1960...... :D
Renmoo (66)
359219 2005-05-28 07:34:00 Greetings people, my sister has to complete her English assignment involving so-called "Elizabethan Times". She had tried googling for it, but not much positive results came back. (I haven't check on that yet) Below is the key questions she needs to answer.

What kind of education does the children have?
what is the difference between the education now and then?
What influences on the subjects that the students have chosen on them?

I am hoping that senior members like Terry and Graham_L have something to tell. Much thanks.

Cheers pressf1.pcworld.co.nz

Sorry. I was not born then. I somehow doubt that Terry and Graham_L were born then either. I could be wrong though.

Question 1.
Try this link www.likesnail.org.uk

Question 2.
Use the same link above.

Question 3.
Don't know. Wasn't there.

HTH
Elephant (599)
359220 2005-05-28 08:33:00 Okay, my sister didn't tell me it was 1600, I thought it was 1960...... :D

Good for you for asking James - but I'm a bit appalled. Why on earth would you think Elizabethan times were in the 1960s? :confused:

Anyway, I'm not much help but schooling was only for the well-off or fortunate. And was very basic. Reading and writing, history of England from a non-catholic perspective, good behaviour, and the church catechism. The link Nigel gave has plenty to help.
Winston001 (3612)
359221 2005-05-28 09:06:00 Encyclopedia Brittanica does not give much on education but does mention religious education which would have been particularly important at the time -

Lay education was accomplished through preaching the word and teaching the catechism,such as Calvin's Little Catechism, which was designed for teaching the young.
and

The Latin comedies of Plautus and Terence were familiar in Elizabethan schools and universities, and English translations or adaptations of them were occasionally performed by students.
Misty :cool:
Misty (368)
359222 2005-05-28 09:09:00 We are still living in Elizabethan times (given pre-republican or at least proto-monarchist NZ) but you have to decide which Elizabethan age you want to research. I suggest you try "Elizabeth 1" or "elizabeth the first" something like that strike a light must be heaps on Google.
:D :eek: :) :mad:
mark c (247)
359223 2005-05-28 09:10:00 Good for you for asking James - but I'm a bit appalled. Why on earth would you think Elizabethan times were in the 1960s? :confused:

Missed a bit of schooling himself, perhaps.
Only the rich got any. As has been said plus a few classical languages. Everyone else was too busy slaving.
pctek (84)
359224 2005-05-28 09:24:00 Nope, can't remember back as far at the 1500s, can vaguely remember James VI of Scotland succeeding Liz I, and becoming James I of England in 1601.

Schooling in those days was provided by the churches, charities, philanthropists, and wealthy merchants organisations like Merchant Taylors.

Henry VIII broke with the Roman Church and dissolved the monasteries which had been the main providers of education.

I've found a few sites that give a bit of run up to Elizabethan times and maybe complements Nigels sites:

www.headlinehistory.co.uk(3).htm
(scroll down to Boys education)

www.britannia.com

www.chass.utoronto.ca
Terry Porritt (14)
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