EARLY MODERN (1485-1750) Flashcards
passion, people and controversial popular playground
1
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describe early modern bankside
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passion, people and controversial popular playground
2
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how was early modern bankside used [4]
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entertainment,
- playhouses
- filled with brothels (‘stews’), gaming dens and bull/bear bating arenas for gambling
- actors met at cardinal’s cop
- prison for troublemakers or religious offenders
3
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what was the diversity of/who used early modern bankside [7]
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- rich women or women of dubious morals attended theatres
- sports such as bear. were enjoyed by both rich and poor including queen liz
- rich and poor went to plays, rich sat in covered galleries
- criminals
- priests
- traders
- prostitutes
4
Q
what were important buildings in the early modern period [8]
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- london bridge
- theatres (globe, rose, hope, swan)
- bull and bear baiting arenas
- priory of st. mary overie
- clink
- stews & brothels (love lane, maiden lane, cock lane)
- inns and markets
- glass making factories
5
Q
physical remains of early modern bankside [6]
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- bear ring, now covered by bear gardens (bear lane and gardens named in memory of historic background)
- rose alley leads to the still standing rose theatre
- hope theatre is in bear gardens
- old barge
- anchor/paris garden stairs
- remaining clink street, many streets still have bollards (iron posts) with inscription ‘clink 1812’
6
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why was early modern bankside important [4]
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- rose theatre still used today to show Shakespeare’s plays
- clink was a notorious prison by 1470’s and was inhabited by lawbreakers from liberty of the clink
- bear bait. arenas shows: entertainment that brings rich & poor together/ provoked violence/ law shut theatres on some days to preserve bear baiting
- theatres on bankside as it was not popular w/ city but bankside was outside city’s jurisdiction
7
Q
when did southwark school of glaziers open
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1515
8
Q
when did the globe theatre open
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1599
9
Q
when were many theatres and arenas shut by puritans
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1642
10
Q
when was the great fire of london
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1666
11
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when was the great fire of southwark
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1676
