Elizabethan Period

Personally, I am really intrigued by the Elizabethan Period because it was such a changing, influential, molding period. The Elizabethan Period was the age of the Renaissance, of new ideas and new thinking. It was a period full of the greatest tools in increasing knowledge and learning, was responsible for the interest in the different sciences and inventions and perhaps factored in sparking the supernatural. The new ideas, information and increased knowledge about science, technology and astrology led to a renewed interest in the supernatural including witches, witchcraft and ghosts which led to belief in superstitions and the supernatural. I think these characteristics can be seen in both Othello and Macbeth. Othello is the spark of all new ideology; no one is used to such an influential and dominant African American man. Macbeth is clearly the definition of supernatural filled with their witches, double double toil and trouble spells, and prophesies. During the Renaissance period people blamed unexplainable events as the work of witches, an exact replica of what is protruding in Macbeth. Women were those most often accused of being witches. Any more thoughts on how this era is seeped into Shakespeare’s plays?