10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEAR-BAITING»
Discover the use of
bear-baiting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bear-baiting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Society and Religion in Elizabethan England
Bedel was upset about the physical agony suffered by bears and dogs, and
urged that the money saved by abolishing bear-baiting be used to assist the
needy. In his 1583 treatise on the Ten Commandments, Babington categorized ...
2
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ...
BEAR-BAITING. BEAR-BAITINQ. well contented.' Elizabeth took especial delight
in seeing the courage of her English mastiffs pitted against the cunning of Ursa
and the strength of Taurus. On the 25th of May 1559, the French ambassadors ...
3
Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Part of the appeal of bear baiting was based on the fact that a bear was an
extremely rare sight in Britain; every bear had to be imported as the animal was
no longer native to the British Isles. References to the sport can be found in
Henry H's ...
Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew, 2005
4
Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain Since 1066
No doubt objecting to the riotous behaviour of the crowds as much as to the
actual baitings, the House of Commons ordered the garden's owners to forbid '
the Game of Bear-baiting in these Times of Great Distractions'.4 In the same year,
...
In Midwestern states where bear baiting is legal, veteran hunters make the case
that baiting and lures have been part of traditional hunting for hundreds of years.
They talk about the skill of learning proper techniques, and the heart-pounding ...
6
Eat More, Pray More, Love More
Bear-baiting was popular in England for a few centuries, from the sixteenth to the
nineteenth century. They kept herds of bears for the sport they called bear-baiting
. Arenas for this so-called sport were called bear-gardens. Each bear garden ...
7
Wooden Images: Misericords and Medieval England
The animal in question would be chained and staked to the ground, to be set
upon by dogs. In the Beverley scene, right, a bear is being pulled in a basket on
the way to the bear- baiting site. On the left supporter, the bear is being muzzled
in ...
Juanita Ballew Wood, 1999
8
Twelfth Night: Character Studies
The sport of bear-baiting is clearly referred to and alluded to in Twelfth Night in a
number of places. When Fabian joins the pack of pranksters he informs Toby of
his motive for wanting to see Malvolio 'come by some notable shame' (2.5.5): ...
9
Spiking the Sucker Punch
In Elizabethan England, a popular leisure activity was “bear baiting,” a sport
where a live bear with its teeth and claws filed down was presented in a coliseum
, one of its legs secured to a stake in the ground. The bear would then be set
upon ...
10
Shakespeare in the Present
32 34 36 37 informative argument that the one practice informs or contaminates
the other, so that bear-baiting provides the drama with metaphorical content,
strikes me as possibly misleading in some of its fundamental presuppositions.
First ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEAR-BAITING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bear-baiting is used in the context of the following news items.
Man sold bear cubs vs. puppies: For 2 years man believed his pet …
... "Across Southeast Asia, China and Taiwan, Asian black bear numbers are declining due to hunting, illegal animal trading and bear-baiting.". «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
Maine House spikes bill to make ballot initiatives more difficult
Lawmakers argued that the bill was an overreaction to last year's bear-baiting referendum, a ballot question that has since inspired several ... «Press Herald, Jun 15»
Othello's more of an angry dad and the modern Moor is too morose …
But where he offers a cerebral Venetian sophisticate, we lose the blood-chilling bear-baiting at the centre of the story. Joanna Vanderham's tall ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
The Last of the English Poachers by Bob and Brian Tovey with John …
Nonetheless, for all the bluster, The Last English Poachers is a raw and vivid picture of what Bob calls “this bear-baiting bastard of a world” and ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
In his new medical show, Kyle is like the world's most pompous …
Its confrontational format (famously described by a judge as “a human form of bear-baiting”) regularly prompts the thought “Can TV go any ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Our say: Compassion for animals unevenly distributed
The first audiences of Shakespeare's plays also relished "bear-baiting," the "sport" of seeing how long it would take trained fighting dogs to kill a ... «CapitalGazette.com, Jun 15»
Maine lawmakers close to approving new restriction on ballot …
Several supporters cited the 2014 bear-baiting ban referendum as an example of a ballot question advanced by out-of-state interests who ... «Press Herald, Jun 15»
Dallas man cited on suspicion of illegal bear-baiting
A Dallas man has been cited by Oregon State Police on suspicion of illegally baiting bears. According to Lt. Casey Thomas of the State Police ... «Statesman Journal, Jun 15»
State bans chocolate for use in bear-baiting
CONCORD — New Hampshire will become the first state to ban the use of chocolate in bear-baiting, out of a fear that bears and other wildlife ... «The Union Leader, May 15»
Chocolate for bear-baiting will soon be banned
Changes are coming for bear hunters, who won't be allowed to use chocolate for baiting traps starting next year. News 9's Adam Sexton reports ... «WMUR Manchester, May 15»
