Did women play sports in the elizabethan era?
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I got this from a website about Elizabeth I:\n\nThe Elizabethan age is celebrated for its literary and dramatic culture, its music and chivalry. The Elizabethan nobility loved to have a good time, and knew just how to have it. The wealthy of the land would entertain each other with great banquets of rich foods, wine, music and dancing. They would play games against each other, play sports such as tennis or bowls, and they would ride and hunt. Women too would participate in some of these sports, aswell as play musical instruments, draw, sew and embroider. \n When Queen Elizabeth was not busy with matters of state, she too would enjoy some of  these pleasures.  Evenings at court were full of entertainments often dedicated to the Queen, and often there would be public performances conducted especially for her, but the Queen also enjoyed less public activities. \nElizabeth loved to horse ride. She would spend many an hour riding fast through the Palace grounds. Her love for the sport terrified her Councillors, who feared that she would seriously injure, or even kill herself, from a fall. But Elizabeth was undaunted, and continued to ride long distances and at great speed until the end of her life. Even in her sixties she could ride a distance of ten miles, which she once proved to a courtier who advised the ageing Queen to take the carriage. Elizabeth would tire out her ladies by riding hard, and early in her reign, Robert Dudley,  her Master of Horse, had to bring over some new horses from Ireland, as the Queen's own horses were not fast or strong enough for her. Elizabeth and Dudley would ride together often. He was probably the most accomplished horse-man in England, and could match the Queen's speed and vigour. In the summer of 1560, Elizabeth and Dudley rode together almost everyday, while some of her ministers bewailed that the Queen was neglecting matters of state.\n \n Elizabeth also loved to hawk and to hunt. She would hunt deers and stags with her courtiers, and when the unfortunate animal was caught, she would be invited to cut its throat.  In 1575, the French Ambassador reported that she had killed “six does” with her cross bow.  Hunting was quite an event, and would take several hours, so the Queen and her courtiers would often have a picnic in the forest. \nThe Elizabethans had no concept of animal cruelty, and enjoyed a whole manner of violent animal sports, such as bear baiting, cock-fighting, and dog fighting. Elizabeth was particularly fond of bear baiting. However, animals were also kept as much loved pets, and pets were well looked after. Elizabeth's horses were well cared for, and in all likelihood, Elizabeth had her favourite horses that meant a lot to her. She also had a little dog (perhaps several over the course of her long reign) that she loved very much, and who went everywhere with her.\n \n As well as participating in sports, the Queen also enjoyed watching them. She would occasionally watch a game of tennis, especially if one of her favourite courtiers was playing, and once she even dressed up as one of her ladies so that she could secretly watch Robert Dudley compete in a shooting match, and afterwards surprised him by revealing her identity. Sometimes tournaments would be held, and from 1572 onwards, a very grand tilt tournament was held to celebrate the Queen's accession day. \nElizabeth loved the outdoors, and was especially fond of taking long walks in her beautifully ornate gardens.  In one of her many palaces, she even had a terrace built so that she could walk away from preying eyes.\n \n  \nElizabeth I playing the lute \nBuy this print at Allposters.com \n The Elizabethans loved music, and Elizabeth was no exception. She was a skilled musician and played the virginals and the lute.  She enjoyed musical entertainments, encouraged musicians and composers, and was especially fond of dancing.  She would dance the difficult and demanding dance, The Galliard,  every morning to k
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Male tennis is a faster and more intense sport. Females play at a slower pace (except Venus and Serena) not to mention the difference in match lengths. The bottom line is that tickets to female events do not sell as well and the prizes are given out accordingly.
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Which Elizabeth are you referring to?
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Well, in the english curriculum theirs a lesson called 'Sports Studies' which focusses on;\n-the history of sport\n-the psycology\n-the physiology\n-and more....\n\nIts great, I did it.
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Women Physically in a sport on the average are not even close in performance to men. (Beyond Puberty)\nIt a simple fact of testosterone and muscle mass.\nTo say they are equal is silly.\nTo play them against each other is a very boring day for the bookies and the players, and potentially injurious to females.\nThere has to be a handicap or segregation or it simply isn't fun or fair to women.\nI'm not a misogynist. You just have to face reality.\nWomen are better and worse at some things because nature gives then different hormones and physic.
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The CHINESE, then the GREEKS and the ROMANS (and some other civilizations all over). Then the modern Football with the ENGLISH and then THE WORLD.\n\nHistory info:\nAssociation football, soccer or simply football. The Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England.\n\nDocumented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.\n\nIt describes a practice known as tsu chu (Traditional Chinese:蹴鞠 or 蹴踘 ; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. It was not a game as such but more of a spectacle for the amusement of the Emperor and it may have been performed as long as 3000 years ago.\n\nThe Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.\n\nEvidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nMany different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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Races, contests of strength and agility, wrestling, and other games were played.\n\nI would like to invite you to travel along the shores of history. The journey will start today with one of the oldest boardgames, Senet, which was played in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaohs.\n\nmancala\nhttp://nabataea.net/games3.html
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That is a heck of a question.  First of all, that covers 150 years of history!!!\n\nSo the answer is, lots happened!\n\nI can only do this for you...\n\nI hope you know what years you are looking for! (If not, you'll have to cross check by typing in "Elizabethan and Jacobean" and seeing what years they were in. There's only so much I can do!)
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BASKET BALL, FOOTBALL, TENNIS, RUGBY & GOLF.
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YES FOR A FEW YEARS, SEEN HER AT A FEW GAMES
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Puritanism admonished men against wasteful expenditures, worldly pleasures and idleness, as implying a fall from grace, by its emphasis on the responsibility of the individual in the eyes of God.  Additionally, due to biblical passages, they saw play as something confined to childhood and adults in their view had to be industrious.  Many sports were considered wrong simply because they gave pleasure to the spectators. Other were seen to violate biblical laws, such as though shalt not kill.  Also, Puritans, as with some other Christian denominations, sought to eliminate remnants of non-Christian cultures such as the Greeks who prized athleticism.  \n\nEventually those who were not so conservative with religion gained some sort of favor and that combined with historical views led to sports being re-embraced.
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she was a wonderful woman. she knew exactly when to strike and knew which battles to pick and which to ignore. she used her womanly charm to make peace with many countries but always was independent and never needed a man. there are many books and movies on her life and reign. i love her life story here is a website to check out: \nhttp://www.elizabethi.org/ \n\n"I may not be a lion, but I am a lion's cub,  \nand I have a lion's heart" - - queen elizabeth I or bessy\n\n\nhope this helps!
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its not its only a commonwealth games sport. and I'm not sure when it became a sport at the commonwealth games.
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i think if women were up to the standard of the men then sure. I'm totally for women playing football (as i used to before injury) but i dont believe that the standard is high enough. the womens game just isnt strong enough!
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It was an official sport in 1924. Was demoted to a demonstration sport until 1998, when it made it's official debut.
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Origins of Softball  \nWelcome to the Official explanation of Softball History as written by Bill Plummer III of the National Softball Hall of Fame. \nHere is a description Softball History and how it started. These games were called Rounders and Townball. Rounders is the sixteenth century British version of a bat and ball game that dates back to "the dawn of time". In theory, it is a descendant of the bat and ball games played by our "cavemen" ancestors. This theory is a result of the observation that there is no culture in the world that does not have some form of a bat and ball game.\n\nPlayed in England as long ago as the 16th Century, Rounders was a popular pastime. A version of Rounders is still played by folks in the U.K and Ireland. By the 19th Century in America, the game had undergone many changes, and was commonly called Townball. Today we play still another variant called Baseball.
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The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. A military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders whilst trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume.\n\nThe contemporary history of football spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the world's first football association was founded - The Football Association in England. Both forms of football stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. Their early history reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees and to which the historical development of football is related and has actually been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact remains that playing a ball with the feet has been going on for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an aberration of the more "natural" form of playing a ball with the hands.\n\nMore on the history off the game, check:\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,1,00.html