Period Details

Here is a cobbled together glossary of Shakespearian terms and words. I'd hoped to be able to just refer to one, but I couldn't find one that I thought was accurate enough!

It is important to know how to correctly address one's superiors, especially when they can have your cods cut off if you don't!

The following table lists some useful titles and the correct form of address you should use when talking to them.

The following links could be useful in getting a feel for the period :

• Rennaissance Faire
A re-enactment support site, it is written by Americans, whose primary purpose is to assist the running of events for the public, so has several obvious mistakes to those brought up in an actual English culture. Their history page is based on emails rather than actual research or primary sources! The site still has lots of relatively useful stuff on language, customs and costuming.
• Shakespeare At Beyond Books
An interesting discussion of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, complete with a lot of references to the various film versions. Designed more for school projects, so a little didactic, it nevertheless covers many of the themse and ideas pretty well.
• Life in Elizabethan England - A Compendium of Common Knowledge
Not quite in period, but useful nonetheless, and as far as I can tell, pretty accurate.
• Online Castato of 1427
The actual census information for Florence from 1427!