| Amulet | An object worn, especially around the neck, as a charm against evil or injury |
| Angelica | The dible stem, leaf, or root of an herb in the parsley family |
| Antagonist | The principle character in opposition to the hero of a narrative or drama |
| Bergamot | Oil from a small tree grown in Italy; used extensively in soaps and perfume |
| Bohemian | A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards or behaviors |
| Bubonic Plague | A contagious, often fatal epidemic disease caused by bacteria, transmitted from person to person or by the bites of fleas from an infected rodent |
| Boisterous | Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline |
| Chastity | Abstaining from sexual relations(because of religious vows) |
| Commerce | The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale |
| Conspicuous Consumption | The acquisition and display of expensive items to attract attention to one's wealth or to suggest that one is wealthy |
| Corporal Punishment | Punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment |
| Disseminate | To scatter widely |
| Dour | Marked by sterness or harshness |
| Entourage | A group of attendants or associates |
| Grammar School | Second level of schooling during the Elizabethan Era that prepares students for university |
| Haughtily | Proudly |
| Heresy | A controversial or unorthodox opinion or doctrine, as in politics, philosophy, or science |
| Housewifery | The function or duties of a housewife; housekeeping |
| Nobleman | Persons possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development |
| Page | A boy who acted as a knight's attendant |
| Petty School | The most elementary level of schooling in the Elizabethan Era where students learned to read and write in English and do basic arithmetic |
| Prose | Ordinary speech or writing, without metric structure |
| Prude | One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous |
| Puritan | A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries advocated strict religious discipline along with simplification of the ceremonies and creeds of the church of England |
| Rigging | Use of ropes, chains or cables to hang equipment used in theater production |
| Royal Patronage | Financial support and encouragement from the monarch, king or crown. |
| Salve | Something that soothes or heals; a balm |
| Sonnet | A 14 line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes |
| Steward | One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs |
| Stricture | A restraint, limit, or restriction |
| Visceral | Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation |