Education and Leisure
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- Education and Leisure
- Sports, Pastimes and the Theatre
- Leisure
- nobility
- hunting
- fishing
- bowls
- fencing
- farmers, craftsmen & lower classes
- football
- wrestling
- nobility
- sports
- baiting
- **** fighting
- literacy & theatre
- new literature written
- plays became more populat
- comedies performed
- theatres built to accommodate growing audience
- music & dance
- many played instruments
- lutes
- spinets
- harpsichords
- musical performances were popular
- music written to accompany plays
- dancing was a popular pastime
- many played instruments
- Leisure
- Elizabethan Education
- no national system of education
- education helped prep for roles in future
- only 15-20% were literate
- very few went to school (only rich could attend & needed to)
- Humanists began to argue education was valuable
- Protestants argued people should learn scriptures
- printing press= books less expensive
- girls received no formal education
- only rich went to Dame Schools or had private tutors
- change
- new grammar schools= children educated (scholarships for poorer children)
- literacy improved
- Sports, Pastimes and the Theatre
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