Popular Culture in Elizabethan society

Question 1

What did the Elizabethans like to do?

Answer 1

• Plays
  -Literature due to printing press
  -Bloodsports
  -Public Excecutions
  -Church
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Question 2

Who were people that opposed the theatre and why?

Answer 2

Puritans and authorities
- Encouraged drinking
-disease
-pickpocketing
-sinful (male actors dressing like females)
-distracts from church.
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Question 3

Types of bloodsports

Answer 3

Bear Baiting, bull baiting, dog fighting.

Question 4

Why did accusations for witchcraft increase?

Answer 4

-Socio- economic factors (1580s saw dramic increase in poverty)
-Religion - Puritans
-Gender - attempt by a male dominated society to stamp down on women.

Question 5

Witchcraft Law (1563)

Answer 5

• Witches convicted of murder were to be executed by hanging.