8-1Sport

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The daily life routines really were based on social ranking. If someone were Queen, their activity choices would be much better than if they were lowly or lesser peasants. Shakespeare primarily wrote for the common person, while Queen Elizabeth enjoyed more extravagant entertainment, such as Bear and Bull Baiting. That was a bloody sport and, according to __Elizabeth’s London__, was when horses, bears and bulls were attacked by dogs, and during this event, there was usually much bloodshed and death. =====

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Music was a very large part of peoples’ lives; people listened to it for amusement or for deeper reason. There was court music, church music, theatre music, street music, and town music. Theater became eminent during the time because it was always enhanced by music that would normally accompany the presentation. As a summary of Kavitha Kareti’s words on music, Music literacy was expected of the upper class, but many lower and middle class Elizabethans simply made their own music. They would do it during their daily routines. Most common instruments were the lute, virginal, viola, recorder, bagpipe and the fiddle. There was no way to record music, so it was preformed at concerts. Official musicians, or Waits, gave free public concerts. Because music was always used in theater, it would project a sense of conversation to intensify the drama. Many people went to theatre in Elizabethan times. Shakespeare himself mainly wrote for the poor working class who would go to see his plays to relax themselves and have a good time. =====

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Games were another part of peoples’ lives. They would play games to relax after work, and most often these games included gambling. Though cards were a fun game of chance and luck, Chess was the most famous board game of the time. There were many other strategy and wit games, along with gambling and sports. __Elizabeth’s London__ by Liza Picard states that, “Archery was going out of fashion as a weapon of war, but Elizabeth still required all her male subjects aged between seven and sixty to possess bows and arrows and know how to use them.” The early ancestor of the modern-day badminton was also played by Elizabethans during this era. Other noteworthy Elizabethan England sporting games include billiards, bowls, early golf known as Colf, Hammer-Throwing which was a sport of skill, using technique and strength, wrestling, tennis and many more. Children joined the fun as well, playing games such as Marbles, Blind Man’s Bluff (a game very similar to Marco Polo, but in a large room rather than water), and Hopscotch. =====

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For entertainment, people watched events such as fencing, and Bull and Bear Baiting. The Queen Elizabeth herself s a id, “… it was a sport very pleasant to see, to see the bear, with his pink eyes, tearing after his enemies approach; the nimbleness and wait of the dog t o take his advantage and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults: if he were bitten in one place how he would pinch in another to get free; that if he were  taken once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing and tumbling he would work and wind himself from them; and when he was loose to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy.” As disturbing as that is, many people enjoyed this even much, and it made much revenue for its creators. =====