Gender in Shakespearean England

This is a context lesson focusing on gender in Elizabethan England.

This is two lessons in one.

The first focuses on gender and stereotypes. It covers qualities expected in men and women in contemporary times and then what would be expected in Elizabethan times.

The next lesson focuses on the specifics for gender in Elizabethan times focusing on what it was like to be a woman.

There is an information and worksheet attached at the end of the powerpoint - this has information to highlight and questions to answer based on the information.

There is also a task to focus on the differences between lower and upper class woman at the time.

There are two youtube links - one to traditional elizabethan music for entry to the classroom and the other to a video that tells us what life was like for an Elizabethan woman.