Entertainment In The Tudor Times. There were no movie theatres or computer games during tudor times and so their forms of entertainment were quite different to the entertainments that we have in our lives today. Tudor sports tudor music executions theatres.
The rich jousted tried to knock each other off horses with a pole or lance played chess and amused themselves by staging short plays with musical accompaniments called masques. Others seem a world away. Historian john guy 1988 argued that england was economically healthier more expansive and more optimistic.
Watching plays became very popular during the tudor times.
They worked for most of the week sunday was the day of rest reserved for fun and there were occasional saints days or holy days. If there was a great public event such as a royal wedding then the monarch would pay for wine and food to be placed in the streets for the poor people to join in the celebrations. They show the worries of the court and communities about theatre the dangers of life as a child actor the internationality of theatre as a touring profession and the effect of the growth of theatre on other pastimes such as bear baiting. The sources in this lesson explore a variety of documents related to theatres and plays in tudor england.