Entertainment For Men
What did they do? 16th-17th
Daily life
Church calendar. Feasts, Fairs and Festivals - Elizabethan Customs & Festivals.Different types of Sports and Tournaments. Games, Gaming and Gambling, Bear and Bull Baiting, Hawking and Hunting. The Plays and the Theatres. Fairs, Festivals, Banquets and Feasts all played a part in Elizabethan life
Festivals, Feasts
They had banquets, feasts.In feasts men will have a jug of beer or ale. For the men that were less affluent they went to alehouses.Also most of their festivals were based on the Church calendar.
Theater
They watched plays. They went to the theater.
Archery
The "Knights of Prince Arthur's Round Table" was a society of archers instituted by Henry VIII. Archery was among some of the summer past times for the youth.
Bear Baiting
Bear baiting is the entertainment of having a tied bear fight against dogs.In some cases they would let the bears chase the animals or even people. Dogs would be wounded or even killed by the bear so they would have to be replaced.