Key Topic 3: Elizabethan Society in the Age of Exploration
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- Created on: 27-05-18 13:50
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- Key Topic 3: Elizabethan Society in the Age of Exploration
- Leisure Activities
- Fencing
- Tennis
- Hunting deer
- Household musicians
- Song evenings
- Tobacco
- Archery
- Fishing
- Feast days - drinking and feasting
- Stories (printing press)
- Theatres
- Inns and taverns (everyday life)
- Wrestling
- Running
- Football
- Hunting rabbit
- Sang ballads
- Gambling
- Bear baiting
- **** - fighting
- Cards and dice
- Elizabethan Theatre
- Groundlings - stood up (poor)
- Rich people - sat down in covered galleries
- Many people shouted and there was no scenery
- Wealthy people sat on stage
- Colourful costumes and complicated plots and characters
- Theatres built: - The Curtain (1577) - The Rose (1587) -The Theatre (1576)
- Elizabeth loved plays (gave £3 tip) but worried about religious and political messages
- Did opportunities in education increase in Elizabeth England?
- Scholarships given to bright boys from a poorer background
- Taught Latin and Greek
- Some lower classes taught to read and write
- Causes of Poverty
- Bad Harvests
- Food prices went up due to shortages
- Farmers rent increased
- Village labourers lost jobs
- More sheep and less crops
- Unemployment
- Work for spinners and weavers
- Cloth important
- Cloth trade collapsed in 1550s
- 10,000s lost jobs
- Work for spinners and weavers
- Population Increase
- Black Death: low population until 1500s
- More jobs needed but there were fewer jobs in cloth + farming
- Less jobs were available so many couldn't earn money
- Inflation
- High demand for food
- Wages not going up but food prices were
- New coins with less gold + silver made under Henry VIII ? nobody trusted them
- Monastery Closures
- Monasteries provided food and shelter in 1530s
- Less help for the poor
- Dissolution of Monasteries
- Less help for the poor
- Monasteries provided food and shelter in 1530s
- Bad Harvests
- The Poor
- Leisure Activities
- Working people and the unemployed
- Everyone
- Lords and their gentries
- Everyone
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