Elizabethan Era Sports

The Elizabethan Era includes many of different sports and games. They had many categories like Elizabethan fencing, Elizabethan gaming and gambling, Elizabethan tournaments, Elizabethan bear and bull baiting, Elizabethan entertainment, Elizabethan hunting, and Elizabethan hawking (Elizabethan Era). These sports were used for entertainment and fun. First, we have some team and individual sports. Team sports that we played were Elizabethan hunting, Elizabethan tournaments, battledore and shuttlecock, Elizabethan bowls, gameball, hurling or shinty, pall mall, rounders, skittles, stoolball (Elizabethan Era). These sports were very popular and enjoyed by many people (Elizabethan Era). For individual sports they had Elizabethan Archery, billiards, colf, Elizabethan fencing,

“Skill in Fencing during the Elizabethan era was a requirement of all Upper class Nobility” (Elizabethan Era). In addition, “social changes during the Elizabethan era led to an increase in the popularity of dueling, or fencing, as a means to settle private disagreements especially those concerning reputation and honor. Fencing masters came into great demand. A sword was an important part of a nobles apparel and it was important that he had adequate fencing skills” (Elizabethan Era). As you can see, fencing was a critical part of that era to be part of a higher class. Furthermore, they had other types of games, such as board gaming, card gaming, and dice gaming (Elizabethan Era). For board gaming, they had chess, tables, nine men’s morris, alquerques, fox and geese, philosophers game, shove ha’penny, and shovelboard (Elizabethan Era). In card games, they had one & thirty, ruff and honors, and maw (Elizabethan Era). In dice games, they had knucklebones and hazard (Elizabethan Era). In this time, “gaming and gambling was a common and popular pastime in the period and how the Elizabethans spent much of their leisure” (Elizabethan