Elizabethan Entertainment

Question 1

What forms of entertainment were popular for all?

Answer 1

-Dancing
-Music
-Singing
-Gambling

Question 2

What forms of entertainment were popular for the rich?

Answer 2

-Feasts
-Hunting
-Jousts
-Banquets
-Horse Racing
-Hawking
-Archery

Question 3

What forms of entertainment were popular for the poor?

Answer 3

-Puppet shows
-Hawkers
-Conjurers
-Trained animals

Question 4

What were Cruel sports?

Answer 4

Enjoyed by all, the most popular were bear and bull baiting. Large audiences would place bets.

Question 5

What are the Bands of strolling players?

Answer 5

They tour the country & perform plays to townspeople, farmers, women & children.

Question 6

What was the start of theatre?

Answer 6

In 1572 a law was passed banning strolling players unless they had a licence to perform. The first theatre was built in 1576.

Question 7

What was the theatre like?

Answer 7

*The cheapest ticket was in the pit (unprotected from rain)
* Women were not allowed to act.

Question 8

What was the support for the theatre?

Answer 8

*Liz loved the theatre
*Plays were used as propaganda

Question 9

What was the opposition for theatre?

Answer 9

*Population growth
*Beggars and pickpockets could attend.
*Puritans viewed the theatre as sinful.

Question 10

Why was the Pope part of the religious problem?

Answer 10

Liz has no right to be Queen as she is the illegimate daughter of Henry VIII.

Question 11

What were the Catholic Beliefs about the religious problem?

Answer 11

*Pope is head of the church
*Episcopacy help run the church.
*Services in Latin
*Highly decorated
*Priests not allowed to marry.

Question 12

What were the Protestant beliefs?

Answer 12

*Monarch is head of the church.
*Episcopacy help run the church.
*Services in English
*Priests allowed to marry

Question 13

What are the Puritan beliefs?

Answer 13

*There should be no head of the church
*No episcopacy
*Simple church services
*No decoration in churches

Question 14

What was the ‘via media’?

Answer 14

The middle way, a compromise between Catholicism and protestants.

Question 15

What were the rules of the ‘via media’?

Answer 15

*Protestantism the official religion.
*New prayer book introduced, bible in English, simple churches and priests allow to marry.
*Refused to give in to extreme protestant ideas
*Kept episcopacy and decoration (catholic elements)
*No persecution of Catholic but fines given to those who don’t attend church.

Question 16

What was the act of supremacy, 1559?

Answer 16

Liz was confirmed as the head of church of England with the title of ‘supreme governor’. All officials had to swear an oath of loyalty accepting this.

Question 17

What was the act of uniformity, 1559?

Answer 17

Ensured that services were followed the same way. The protestant Book of Common Prayer used in all churches with the bible services in English. Clergy had to swear an oath to use the Prayer Book. Those who didn’t attend church were fined.

Question 18

How was the religious settlement enforced?

Answer 18

With royal injunctions, visitations, act of exchange, episcopacy.

Question 19

What were Royal injunctions? (Orders given to the clergy)

Answer 19

*Condemn Catholic practices
*Identify recusants to the Privy council & local JP’s
*Fine recusants each time they are absent.
*Ensure uniformity of practice.

Question 20

What were Visitations?

Answer 20

*125 commissioners tour the country to make sure the clergy were following the rules.
*Over 400 clergy resigned or were sacked between 1559 & 1564. Over half were Catholic.

Question 21

What was the act of exchange?

Answer 21

Allowed Liz to take land & buildings belonging to the church.

Question 22

What was the Episcopacy?

Answer 22

Liz trusted the bishops with the daily organisation of the church.