God
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The angels
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The monarch
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Church Men
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Aristocracy
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Gentry
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Merchants
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Peasants
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Women
It was a very important given in Elizabethan society that you were born into a class in society and there you stayed and that this was God’s will; the only way out was to marry.
All jobs or occupations were rigorously controlled and only certain ones were available to each class.
What relevance did this have to Shakespeare’s life? See William Shakespeare author…doc