Othello Background

Use the following links to answer the questions below. Write you answers in your notebook as we will be going over them on Wednesday.

http://elizabethan.org/
www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/
http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/articles.aspx?&id=83
http://www.taneter.org/moors2.html
 
1. Describe the role of women in England during the Renaissance.

 

2. How would a young woman respond to a request from her father?

 

3.  Who were the Moors?  From where did they come? What were they doing in Europe in the sixteenth century?

 

4. What religious or cultural practices are associated with Moors?

 
5. Describe the Venetians’ relationship with Cyprus during the 1570s.