Part 1: An Introduction To Elizabethan England Study Guide Graded A+

Which of these excerpts from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England is related from the second-person point of view? {Ans: b. Those things that Elizabethans take for granted are precisely what you will find most striking . . .}But be careful if you adopt a partial regime: heavy fines are levied for eating meat on nonmeat days. The standard fine is £3 or three months imprisonment, but in 1561 a London butcher slaughtering three oxen in Lent is fined £20. Fines can be levied on the head of a household for every single member who breaks the fast, so if you have lots of servants, make sure they all obey the law. What is the effect of the second-person point of view in this excerpt? {Ans: b. It puts the reader in the place of the Elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat.}But you still have producers holding back corn supplies, even though hoarding is forbidden by law. In Stratford in 1597 seventy-five townsmen are found guilty of hoarding corn, including William Shakespeare, who is hanging on to ten quarters of malt. Worse than this, "engrossers" buy up all the local supply of an important