Elizabethan Times

Audiences threw vegetables at actors they didn't like.

In wealthy homes, the kitchen was usually on the top floor.

Women weren't allowed to own property or businesses.

Tomatoes were considered poisonous in England during Shakespeare's time.

People ate with spoons made of bread called 'trenchers'.

Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'eyeball'.

Actors wore heavy makeup made from lead that sometimes poisoned them.

Most people in Elizabethan England died before they reached 30 years old.

Queen Elizabeth I had red hair and wore wigs.

Queen Elizabeth had many children.

People in Elizabethan England believed the world was flat.

Most people in Elizabethan England could read and write.

Shakespeare wrote all his plays by himself without any help.

Boys and girls attended different schools.

Teenagers in Shakespeare's time could get married without their parents' permission.

People only bathed once a year in Shakespeare's time.

All parts in Shakespeare's plays were played by men.

Elizabethans used sugar to clean their teeth.

The plague closed theaters in London for nearly two years during Shakespeare's career.