East Greenwich High School Library: Elizabethan Research Paper
Elizabethan Research Paper Research Resources
Possible research question: What happened when you broke the law during Shakespeare’s time? Punishment was sometimes deadly and almost always brutal.
- Crime and Law - Internet Shakespeare Editions
The topics in this section include:
- Coney-catching: The Elizabethan underworld,
- Crime to the Elizabethans
- The civil courts, arrest, indictment,
- Trial and the courts, and
- Punishment. - Crime and Punishment - Elizabethan Era
Interesting facts & information about Elizabethan Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England:
- Crime, Punishment & Executions & Tortures
- Crime and Punishment of the Nobility and Upper Classes
- Crime and Punishment of the Lower Classes - Torture in the Tower - Historic UK
It is well known that the Tower of London has been a place of imprisonment, torture and execution over the centuries.
It is surprising to learn that actually, torture was only employed in the Tower during the 16th and 17th centuries, and only a fraction of the Tower’s prisoners were tortured.
Possible research question: You may have heard that “all the world’s a stage.” In the case of Shakespeare’s Globe theater, it really was. How so?
- Theater - Shakespeare's Globe
Check out the Fact Sheets about theaters, audiences and playhouses available to you, provided by Shakespeare's Globe. Click on NEXT at the bottom of the page to view Fact Sheets about the actors and costumes. - Shakespeare's Playhouses - British Library
From the open-air Globe to the candlelit Blackfriars, Professor Eric Rasmussen and Ian DeJong explore early modern playhouses. - Folger Shakespeare Theater
Information about playhouses and the Globe, theaters, audiences, actors and costumes, and staging. - The Globe Theater - Learn 360 video
A fifth of London’s population in the year 1600 were regular playgoers. Examination of the Globe Theatre shows where they stood, how the stage was constructed, and how the special effects so beloved by the audience were achieved, from thunder and lightning to fairies flying through the air and ghosts emerging from the earth. Rehearsals were minimal and there was no producer or director—just the play, the actors, and the audience of two to three thousand, which could be kept under control only by the interest of the play itself. The program points out that Shakespeare himself wrote the plays to be adaptable to different theaters when the company was on tour, and to different audiences. (28 minutes)
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http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/globe/globe.htm
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-globe-theatre.htm
http://www.theatredatabase.com/16th_century/condemnation_of_elizabethan_theater_001.html
https://www.playshakespeare.com/study/elizabethan-theatres
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-theaters.htm
Possible research question: Suffocating corsets and pale skin were just another “day at the beach” for Elizabethan women. Why did they dress that way?
Daily Life in Elizabethan England by The work is organized into sections on the structure of Elizabethan society, the course of life, the cycles of time, the living environment, clothing, food, and entertainment.
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- Fashion - Life in Elizabethan England
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge. - Daily Life in London - InfoBase Database Article
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Scroll down the article to the section titled: How Londoners Dressed. - Clothing in Elizabethan England - British LibraryLiza Picard describes the laws, trends and standards of hygiene that determined who wore what in Elizabethan England.
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Elizabethan England by Focusing on the Elizabethan era in England, a period from about 1550 to 1603, this title shows various examples of the fascinating clothing worn by everyone from the noblemen and middle classes to the countryfolk and military men.
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- Elizabethan Costumes: Tudor England - Learn 360 videoElizabeth I epitomized the height of fashion during the Elizabethan era. Hills discusses the garments of the time period. Mistress van der Plasse invented starch in 1564.
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Possible research question: What passed for an inviting meal during Shakespeare’s time? It might be a bit hard to digest today.
- Food in Elizabethan England - British LibraryThe wealthiest Elizabethans ate lavish meals of many courses, while many poorer people didn’t even have their own ovens, and some of the poorest survived on leftover scraps from the rich. Liza Picard describes how class, religion and politics all influenced how Elizabethans shopped for food, cooked and ate.
- Daily Life in Elizabethan England by The work is organized into sections on the structure of Elizabethan society, the course of life, the cycles of time, the living environment, clothing, food, and entertainment.
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- What We Eat - Life in Elizabethan EnglandLife in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge.
- Daily Life in London - InfoBase Database ArticleWe have a 3 month trial to InfoBase databases.
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Scroll down the article to the section titled: Inside London's Homes: Furniture and Meals
Possible research question: In a Renaissance world dominated by men, how did an unlikely queen manage to gain, maintain, and wield military and cultural power during this English time period which would later bear her name?
- Blooms Literature - Queen Elizabeth I Biography
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Queen of England (r. 1558-1603) biography. - Elizabeth I: Fictions and RealitiesThe article discusses England's Queen Elizabeth I and examines the mythology surrounding her reign. Particular focus is given to the perspective that Elizabeth I was an ideal Protestant queen. Elizabeth's personal insecurities and also her insecurity in ruling England, including her bouts of depression, are presented.
- Blooms Literature - William Shakespeare BiographyWe have a 3 month trial of InfoBase database. To access the article, use the following username and password:
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Password: digital - Folger Shakespeare LibraryLearn about William Shakespeare's birth, childhood, marriage, work in theater and his final years.
- Internet Shakespeare EditionsInformation about William Shakespeare's’ life and work and Elizabethan times.
- Fact Sheet about William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's GlobeClick on the word VIEW under the picture of William Shakespeare to open the fact sheet about William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare eBook by An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, "Shakespeare A to Z, Revised Edition is the only single-volume reference to virtually everything one needs to know about the Bard and his works.
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Possible research question: Did Shakespeare even really exist? If so, could one man really be responsible for the greatest body of work in the English language? Or did he have help?
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/howdowe.html
- If Shakespeare didn't write the plays, who did?The article presents brief summaries of the arguments behind the various schools of thought on alternate authors of the plays of William Shakespeare. The most prominent potential authors are the philosopher Francis Bacon, the playwright Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. The general consensus, though, is that Shakespeare's plays were the work of a single genius.
- The Bard or Not the Bard?The Bard or Not the Bard: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?
Possible research question: How did an isolated island manage to defeat the Spanish Armada to become the most powerful nation in the world?
- How the Spanish Armada Was Really Defeated - The History Reader
How the Spanish Armada Was Really Defeated, by Robert Hutchinson. - Why the Armada Failed - EBSCO database articleEvaluates the failure of the Spanish Armada to conquer England in the 16th century.
- Size of the Armada;
- Difficulties encountered by the Armada;
- Evidences of the failure.
| Crime and Punishment | Theater and The Globe | Fashion | Food and Dining | Queen Elizabeth I | Shakespeare | War |
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I. Introduction II. Crime III. Punishments IV. Trials V. Conclusion OR I. Introduction II. Crime III. Punishments IV. Social Classes V. Conclusion OR Tower of London |
I. Introduction II. The first Globe Theater III. The Second Globe Theater IV. Theater operations V. Conclusion |
I. Introduction II. Childhood / Family III. Life IV. Career V. Death VI. Conclusion |
I. Introduction II. Events Leading Up to the War III. England IV. Spain V. Outcome VI. Conclusion |
Paper Requirements
NOTE CARD AND CITATION REQUIREMENTS
You will use note cards to gather your information from each source. You will use these note cards later to ensure your research is integrated and cited properly in your paper. By the end of the process, you will have researched at least five sources, which means you will have at least 45 note cards total (that’s a minimum of nine cards PER source).
CITATIONS: MLA FORMAT AND CITING GUIDELINES
On your notecards and in your essay, you must cite all opinions you have paraphrased as well as any paraphrased facts that are not common knowledge. All paraphrased and quoted citations MUST match up with the sources listed on your Works Cited Page. Do not include sources on your Works Cited page unless you have cited them in your research paper.
- Create an account with NoodleTools right now and create a new project entitled, “Elizabethan Research Paper.” You will utilize NoodleTools for note-taking and tracking your sources. NoodleTools will keep everything saved for you and format your sources correctly in MLA format. This will save you quite a bit of time and frustration.
- Still unsure about how to cite a source? Check out The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) here.
- If two sources have similar titles, use the first few words of the title to differentiate them for your reader: (“Makeup and Women”). (“Makeup and the Ladies”).
RESEARCH REPORT TOPICS and SOURCES
SOURCE REQUIREMENTS
You are not limited to the websites contained below, but you must read and take notes on five sources. You must cite at least four of them frequently in your essay. If you find you have not found all of the information you need, you may research a sixth source. You are not required to consult any hard copy or “offline” sources for this assignment.
Note taking / Citation Help
- NoodleTools
You will use this resource to take notes and create citations. You will create a project to share your notes and sources with your teacher. - How to create citations using NoodleToolsGoogle Slides showing step-by-step process on how to construct a citation.
- The OWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab
Questions about in-text citations or MLA formatting? Check out the helpful suggestions from the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
