ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

PLAY BY SAKESPEAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which group was at the bottom of England’s social hierarchy during Shakespeare’s early years?
A
Nobility
B
Peasants
C
Yeomen
D
The gentry
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Peasantry is the lowest order of Society.

Detailed explanation-2: -(Peasants were farmers who worked in the fields owned by wealthy lords.) About 95 percent of the population of England lived in these rural districts. The peasant farmers performed almost all of the labor.

Detailed explanation-3: -The lower class society were mainly poor people and were peasants (peasants were farmers who worked in the fields owned by wealthy lords), servants, market people, and beggars. They weren’t treated well. Lower class people didn’t have much money to spend on things they needed.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was through this system that Elizabethan society functioned. At the top of the social structure was the Monarch. Below them came the nobility and gentry. Both the nobility and gentry would have owned quite a lot of land.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jacobean England was a hierarchical society with strict social classes arranged in tiers like a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid were members of the English aristocracy, the royal court, and landowners, and at the bottom were servants, everyday workers, and farmers who did not own the land they worked on.

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