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13 de jul. de 2023 · Jul 13, 2023. The 17th century, an era framed by significant political and cultural shifts, carried its unique array of pastimes and entertainments. While the shadow of religious upheavals...
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Naturally, the rich, if not always completely idle, had more leisure time than most. When not managing their estates and servants, the wealthy looked to while away the time with a wide variety of activities. Meals were, of course, an opportunity to entertain friends and more distant relations, especially on Sundays and public holidays. Feasts with ...
The poorer members of society at least had some time for their own pursuits beyond making ends meet, typically Sunday afternoons after a visit to church had been done in the morning or on public holidays. Such public entertainments as Elizabethan theatrewere cheap enough for most to be able to buy a ticket, although commoners largely preferred such...
Hunting has always been a popular activity amongst the aristocracy in order to show their skills. In the Elizabethan period, enclosures of forest land and strict poaching laws severely restricted hunting opportunities for the lower classes but the rich continued to esteem it as part of a young man's education and as an excuse for men to ride horses...
Dogs like the bulldog and bullmastiffs, bred for their savagery, were put in pits where they would tear to pieces a single bull or bear chained to the centre of the arena. One or more of the dogs were put into the pit and went for the bull or bear's ears or nose, holding on grimly until the bigger animal collapsed from exhaustion. A judge likely de...
Recreating medieval tournaments continued to be popular in the Elizabethan era. Although the arrival of gunpowder weapons meant that the full armour of the medieval knight was now obsolete on the battlefield, dressing up anyway and joustingstill proved an attractive pastime for aristocrats. Tournaments were sometimes a part of festivals, as were mi...
Games played on a lawn were especially loved by the Elizabethans. Bowls (as in modern lawn bowls) was popular with both men and women, the objective being to get one's weighted bowl as near to a specified target as possible. Quoits had a similar aim but one threw stones or a metalhoop at the target which was typically a stake driven into the ground...
Probably the two most common of all indoor leisure activities was needlework for women and reading for both sexes. Printed material of all kinds, from single broadsheets to leather-bound illustrated volumes, were increasingly produced as publishers saw the potential for printing works popular elsewhere such as Renaissance Italy. Humanist philosophy...
Music performed by professionals was appreciated but many people could produce their own. Popular instruments included the recorder, fiddle, bagpipes and the pipe-and-tabor (a recorder and drum combination). For the more accomplished there was the lute, virginals (a keyboard where strings were plucked), and a type of viola known as a viol. Popular ...
Artists had performed mime and short plays since the Middle Ages and before but the Elizabethans began to make the whole thing more professional. Country houses of the rich and the courtyards of public inns often hosted such performances in the early part of Elizabeth's reign. The masque, where masked performers and dancers performed stories based ...
- Mark Cartwright
12 de jun. de 2020 · Some 800 play scripts survive from the 16th and 17th century, although this is only a small proportion of those produced at the time. After Shakespeare, the next most celebrated Elizabethan playwright is Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
- Mark Cartwright
- What was important about Elizabethan theatre?Elizabethan theatre was important because it created groups of professional actors who performed regular and cheap plays for the public in purpose-...
- What was Elizabethan theatre based on?The subject of many Elizabethan plays was historical events, especially from Greek and Roman antiquity. Medieval kings were also a popular subject,...
- What was the name of the most famous Elizabethan theatre?The most famous Elizabethan theatre was the Globe Theatre in London which opened in 1599. Circular and made of wood, the Globe showed many of Willi...
The V&A's Theatre and Performance collections chart the fascinating history of theatre in Britain from the middle ages to today. From early dramatic forms, such as mystery plays and court masques, to the alternative and 'in yer face' drama of the late 20th century, via the patriotic wartime entertainment of the 1940s, and the foundation of ...
17th Century French Entertainment Visual Art Music Le Brun was also commissioned to decorate several council buildings. He is famous for having decorated the Château de Versailles. Visual Art Theater Poussin's the ecstasy of St. paul Many French plays in the seventeenth century
The early zarzuela (not to be confused with the later Romantic version already mentioned) originated in the 17th century as a court entertainment. It was the Spanish counterpart to the court ballet and acquired a strong Italian influence on its musical character.
The 16th and 17th century arrival of early English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish settlers in North America brought new notions of what constituted entertainment and leisure activity. Catholic feast days could brighten settlers’ otherwise often dreary existence.
