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Crime in the elizabethan era

Most common crimes

Most Common Crimes

of Nobilty

-Theft

-Cut purses

-Begging

-Poaching

-Adultery

-Debtors

-Forgers

-Fraud

-Dice coggers

-High Treason

-Blasphemy

-Sedition

-Spying

-Rebellion

-Alchemy

-Murder

-Witchcraft

Fact

Judical system

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Then and now

Shakespear's connection to Crime and Punishment

Now

Then

Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth the I, was beheaded because of her husband's accusation that she committed adultery and treason. Because of this, Elizabeth was pronounced as illegitimate and put last in order of the throne. Queen Elizabeth I was jsut 3 years old when this took place.

Fact

William Harrison described punishment as:

"The greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as offend against the State is drawing from the prison to the place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same purpose."

Crime

Fact

5 pence is worth about 8 cents in canadian dollars. ($0.08 CAN) Pence was the currency used back then.

A peasant who stole anything worth five pence, or more, would be hanged.

Punishment by :

-Burning

-Beheading

-Hanging

-Branding

-Starvation

-Whipping

-The Wheel

-Boiling in oil water or lead

-Cutting off human parts (hands, ears, tongue)

-Pressing

-Ducking tools

-Dunkards cloak

-Gossip's bridle or the brank

Upper Class

(Nobilty)

Lower Class

(Commoners)

Torture

Examples of Crime and Punishment in Shakespear's plays

Purpose

Winter's Tale

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Macbeth

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Torture is the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which the tortured person belongs.

The purpose of torture was to break the will of the victim and to dehumanize him or her. The intent was also to punish, obtain information, extract a confession from the victim or a third party, or to intimidate the victim and others.

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