1. ANSWER A MINIMUM OF 2 QUESTIONS

1. Who were the Shakespeares and the Ardens, and what was each family's place in local society?


Shakespeares are the family of father’s william, John Shakespeare the father of william was born in 1531 came from a family of yeomen, and he gained many prestigious positions in the community. William’s father, worked as a glove-maker and farmer before becoming a council-member or Alderman for the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The Ardens family is his mother’s family. Mary Arden was born in 1540 as a member of the noble Catholic family of the Ardens of Park Hall whose family forebears had been given land by William the Conqueror.The family's financial situation was well off. The Ardens were one of Warwickshire's most prominent families, tracing its ancestry back beyond the Norman Conquest to the Doomsday Book.

2. What was the population of London during Shakespeare's time? Can you briefly describe what the city was like at the time? How did it smell like?


A city of wealth and spectacle.London at the time of Elizabeth's death in 1603 was a thriving commercial metropolis, with an estimated population of 140,000 or more inside its medieval walls. But fifty years ago the population was by 50,000 habitants and with the immigration from other countries London began to grow very quickly. The population of London at the time of Shakespeare was unquestionably a city of wealth and spectacle, but it was also dirty because it had many infectious diseases because people used to throw trash out of the window to the street. also inadequate light and air thanks to the increasing numbers of tenement blocks built with upper stories jutting out over the street.