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Golden Age - Coggle Diagram
Golden Age
Decline of popular pastimes
Reasons for decline
the Queen
the Church
Privy Council
Puritans
protecting the Sabbath
stopping Catholic practices
stopping Pagan practices
preventing disorder
preventing unwanted pregnancies
Popular culture
art
'a fete at Bermonsey'
painted by foreign artists
Queen/ courtiers pay for portraits
she liked getting it done
portray youth -propeganda
Nicholas Hillard
French court
learnt new techniques
painting genius
exquisite miniatures
music
Madrigals popular
John Dowland
'ayres' -songs + lute
secular music popular from 1580s
important
Thomas Tallis and William Byrd
church music for Elizabeth's chapel
literature
increased education
printing press
poetry
Edmund Spencer and Philip Sidney
Prose writers
Shakespeare
plays
theatres
Past times
parish feasts
several days of celebration: dancing/ drinking etc.
ale house
social event house
sports
young boys enjoy football/ boxing
calendar customs
Christmas/ Shrove Tuesday/ Whitsun/ May Day/ Midsummer's Eve/ Harvest home
Opposition to theatres
London Authorities
theatres beyond city walls
large crowds caused disorder
believed they attracted vagrants/ thieves/ prostitution
Puritan preachers
wrote pamphlets attacking theatres
associated plays with Paganism
led young people to sin eg. sex outside of marriage
Concerns about witches
see other mind map