What was the entertainment in Elizabethan times?

Answer:

There were many different types of Elizabethan Entertainment many of which are detailed as follows:

• Feasts - A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by court entertainment. Often celebrated religious festivals
• Banquets - A ceremonial dinner honoring a particular guest
• Fairs - The Annual Summer Fair was often a bawdy affair
• Plays - Starting as plays enacted in town squares followed by the actors using the courtyards of taverns or inns ( referred to as Inn-yards ) followed by the first theatres ( great open air amphitheatres built in the same style as the Roman Coliseum ) and then the introduction of indoor theatres called Playhouses
• Mystery Plays - Re-enacting stories from the Bible
• Festivals - Celebrating Church festivals
• Dancing - Elizabethan dances enjoyed by the Upper Classes, Royalty and Nobility included the Cinque-pace, Galliard, Pavane, Roundel, Tordion and the Volta
• Jousts / Tournaments - A series of tilting matches between knights
• Games and Sports - Sports and games which included archery, bowling, cards, dice, hammer-throwing, quarter-staff contests, quoits, skittles and wrestling
• Animal Sports - Including Bear and Bull baiting. Dog and Cock fighting
• Hunting - Sport followed by the nobility often using dogs
• Hawking - Sport followed by the nobility with hawks