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Bear-baiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elizabethan leisure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Elizabethan era (1558-1603), there were a wide range of leisure activities entertaining both the nobility and the common classes. Among these leisure activities were animal fighting, team sport...
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Another Elizabethan sport is hawking. This was a kind of sport only for the rich, because the poor ... Bull or bear baiting, and cockfights. Bull/bear baiting is when a bull or bear is tied to a post, and dogs are set upon it. Cockfights are when two cocks are put in a pen, and riled up so that they fight to the death.
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ELIZABETHAN ENTERTAINMENT - BEAR AND BULL BAITING AND COCK PITS; The inn-yards therefore originated as a natural progression for theatrics from town squares and public spaces or halls. Another form of popular English entertainment at the time was bear and bull baiting.
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The centre of bear baiting in Elizabethan London is up for sale. ... Although in its time a serious popular entertainment rival to Shakespearean theatre, bear baiting was finally outlawed in 1835.
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BEAR - BAITING and [[Bull - Baiting]], sports formerly very popular in England but now suppressed on account of their cruelty. They took place in arenas built in the form of theatres which were the common resort even of cultivated people.
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During the Elizabethan period, fashion served as a mode for self-expression for all social classes. At the beginning of the era, ... In reference to "blood sports," large crowds of both men and women of all classes flocked to see bear baiting or bull baiting. Bearbaiting involved a bear tied to a stake by a long rope.
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