Freetime In Elizabethan England

Question 1

Musical instruments (4)

Answer 1

Expensive upper class instruments:
Lutes (similar to guitars)
Harpsicords (similar to piano)
Cheaper lower class instruments:
Fiddles
Bagpipes

Question 2

Musical performaces (4)

Answer 2

Popular
Upper classes employed musicians
Lower classes listened to music in public markets
Music also played in taverns & cherches

Question 3

Dancing (2)

Answer 3

Popular to all classes
Have to attend same dances

Question 4

Spectator sports (animal fights) (8)

Answer 4

Watch animals fight to death
Baiting:
Bear tied to post with teeth broken short (can’t bite) & had to fight dogs (many killed)
Bull had equivalent as well
Popular so had special arenas built
Cock fighting:
Cockrells with metal spurs atteck eachother
Popular to all classes
Small towns build arenas
Not all approve (e.g. puritans not agree as some fights took place on Sunday)

Question 5

Literature (6)

Answer 5

Lots new literature
Popular subject
Medevil works e.g. Chaver’s Cantebury Tales popular
Most popular form creative writting was poetry 7 plays:
Most well educated people do this including queen
Some famous poets of time (william shakespear & sir phillip sidney)

Question 6

Sport (11)

Answer 6

Nobility & gentry (have more tme):
Hunting on horse back (men & women)
Hawking (men & women)
Fishing (men & women)
Fencing (men)
Tennis (men)
Working class:
Football (used to be different game (like violent game of rugby)
Sports enjoyed by all classes:
Wrestling
Swimming