LET’S THROW A WEDDING FOR
ROMEO AND JULET a sampling of research links:

***Life in Elizabethan England
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html
(Games∙ Food∙ Money∙ Religion∙ Language∙ Weddings∙ Masters &Servants∙ Occupations∙ The Peers∙ London∙ Fashion∙ Children∙ Household Management∙ Pastime∙ Names∙ The Queen’s Suitors∙ Education∙ Christmas∙ Heraldry∙ Maps)

The Elizabethan World
http://elizabethan.org/

Pollution http://historyeserver.org/medieval-pollution.txt
Social Classes http://www.lepg.org/classes.htm

Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/faq/faqanswer.asp?ID=48

The Wedding ceremony from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/comprym.html

Elizabethan Wedding Customs: Dowry, Contracts, Ceremony, Attire, etc!
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-wedding-customs.htm

Crying the Banns, announcing a couple’s intention to marry.
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-wedding-customs.htm

Elizabethan Period Costumes
http://www.renfaire.com/Costume/index.html

Clothing: http://wwwlepg.org/clothing.htm

Elizabethan Embellishments (costume)
http://www.directcon.net/wander/liztrim.htm

Women’s Clothing for the Lower Orders
http://www.directcon.net/wander/lowwomen.htm

Men’s Clothing for the Lower Order’s
http://www.directcon.net/wander/lowmen.htm

Upper Middle Class and Noble Women’s Garments
http://www.directcon.net/wander/upwomen.htm

Upper Middle Class and Noble Men’s Garments
http://directcon.net/wander/upmen.htm

Elizabethan Jewelry
http://www.directcon.net/wander/lizjewel.htm

Women’s Fashions of the Elizabethan Period
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/womensfashion.html

Fashions Men and Women
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/fashionwm.html

Elizabethan Social History
http://www.dirctcon.net/wander/lizsoc.htm
In order to understand the clothes the Elizabethans wore, you must understand why they wore them. To do this, you need to know how their society worked.

How to cook Medieval
http://godecookery.com/how2cook/howto08.htm

Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Feasts
http://www.godecookery.com/how2cook/howto08.htm

Medieval/ Renaissance Food Clip Art
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/

Elizabethan Lettering
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/old-english-letters.htm

Food and Drink
http://www.regia.org/food.htm

Table Manners (These are really Medieval, but most still applied in the Renaissance.)
http://www.course.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echaucer/special/lifemann/manners/rom-mann.html

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/

Songs of the times
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/songs.html

Music and Verse
http://www.regia.org/music.htm

Elizabethan Stringed Instruments
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/musicalinstruments.html

Elizabethan Card Games
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/Tattershall-tb/cards.html

Popular Amusement and Entertainment
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/amusements.html

To play Piquet
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/org/Medieval/www/src/contributed/grm/games/piquet.html

Elizabethan Sports
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/sportsandentertainment.html

Dance Instruction
http://www.dancetimepublications.com/

Dance
http://www.pbm.com%7Elindahl/dance/steps.html

Quadran Pavane dance (A processional line of couples.)
http://www.pbm.com%7Elindahl/dance/QuadranPayane.html

Lorayne Almain
http://www.pbm.com%7Elindahl/dance/LorayneAlmain.html

Ballo del Fiori dance
http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/dance/BallodelFiori.html

Petit Riense dance
http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/dance/PetitRiense.html

Black Almain dance
http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/danceBlackAlmain.html

Earl of Salisbury Pavane dance
http://www.pbm.com?%7Elindahl/dance/Earlof SalisburyPavane.html