ENGB33 Chapter Notes -Edmund Tylney, Prompt Book, Foul Papers
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Life expectancy in early modern england was under 30 years old. Infant mortality rates were high; poor parishioners versus aristocrats. World without a concept of anti-sceptics, or understanding/treatment of venereal disease. Shakespeare was born in 1564, and baptised on april 26th. Food supply in england was scarce; the poor bore the burden through inflation, low wages and rent increases. Diet was seriously deficient; lower classes being protein deficient and upper classes lacking in green vegetables and milk. Population of england growing: 3. 06 million in 1564 to 4. 06 million in 1600. 10,000 people migrated to london from other parts of england, mainly because the wages were 50% higher. Thomas more"s utopia (1516) : the sheep are eating the people practice of enclosure: croplands farmed in common by rural communities were fenced by wealthy landowners that turned them into pasturage. In1614 a foreigner named father orazio busino, the chaplain of the venetian embassy, visited the fortune playhouse.
