Elizabethan Era Entertainment Notes

• Bear Bating 
• 1 arena in every city
• like Jaime and Brienne in Game Of Thrones
• Fencing is an upper-class sport that came from knights
• Theatre was extremely popular
• common people and upper class were part of 
• had plays in inns
• No women actor
• Shakespeare was a popular playwright
• festivals 
• Festivals on holidays
• Cockfighting 
• chickens were expensive 
• gave the chickens metal claws
• bet on horse races and chariot races
• Children played guessing games
• Tabacco Cannabis and alcohol
• !7-60 needed to know archery
• Lottery was nationalized
• Minor crimes with tickets pardoned
• Hawking was an upper-class sport
• training a bird to hunt
• Nobels played tennis 
• Chess and checkers popularized by Shakespeare