Cultural Overview Shakespeare's Era (1500's AD) William Shakespeare lived in the late 1500's, which was a time where England was relatively divided in terms of living standards and social status, while also recovering from the "Black Death" that still ravished it's lands. The average step in the ladder of society at the time was the humble peasant who lived in what we would see as appalling conditions. Most people lived in a tiny cramped up 3 …showed first 75 words of 915 total…

…showed last 75 words of 915 total…from other mobs or like a kind of tax, ironically if a business did not pay the mob that was protecting it, that mob would usually trash the shop and then threatened lives. The mafia affected a lot of people regardless of social status, from the average family man going to a "Speak Easy" at night for a drink to a cop on the beat to the very mayor in his office. By Nicholas Lilleyman