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  2. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history.

  3. Tudor food and drink - Wikipedia

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    Tudor food is the food consumed during the Tudor period of English history, from 1485 through to 1603. A common source of food during the Tudor period was bread, which was sourced from a mixture of rye and wheat. Meat was eaten from Sundays to Thursdays, and fish was eaten on Fridays and Saturdays and during Lent. [1]

  4. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The above tables exclude Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (composed c. 1589, revised c. 1593), which is not closely based on Roman history or legend but which, it has been suggested, may have been written in reply to Marlowe's Dido, Queene of Carthage, Marlowe's play presenting an idealised picture of Rome's origins, Shakespeare's "a terrible ...

  5. Timeline of food - Wikipedia

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    The instant noodle was invented by Momofuku Ando of Nissin Foods in Japan, and launched the same year. Grains Japan 1958 The first conveyor belt sushi restaurant, Mawaru Genroku Sushi, opens in Higashiosaka. [123] Fast food Japan 1953 Daim chocolate caramel almond bar introduced Confections Sweden 1958 Nestle Nestum introduced Grains Portugal 1959

  6. Tudor period - Wikipedia

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    Jews, mainly Marranos from Portugal or Spain fleeing persecution from the Inquisition began developing a small community in London during this time period. [85] [86] Notably, this was not the first written record of Jews in England which begins around the 1070s, [87] [88] but it was a new wave of migration and community development in England.

  7. Bread and circuses - Wikipedia

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    "Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.

  8. Life of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...

  9. English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries - Wikipedia

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    The variety of topics and groups to which the coffeehouses catered to offers insight into the non-homogeneous nature of English society during the period in which coffeehouses rose to their peak in popularity. These different coffeehouse characters are evident when evaluating specific coffeehouses in detail during the period.