1700's entertainment?

Question

What entertainment was there in the 1700's, I'm doing a project about it and I can't find anything.

Answer 1

Depended on what societal class you were born into. Let me cite 17th century France as what I think would be representative of the best in european culture of that era.

There was, broadly speaking, three classes of society. These were known as estates:

(1) the clergy - this included all of the church's
institutions.

(2) the nobility - the monarchs, and hereditary,
familial, vested interests:
primarily aristocratic land
owners.

(3) everybody else - bourgeoise, the bakers
and candlestick-makers, etc.

Members of the monarchy and nobility, enjoyed a very refined literature, the dance - an ultra refined and stylized exercise - opera, salon music, a great theatrical menu, painting, and on and on. Their gatherings were all restricted to members of their class.

Members of the clergy according to their Roman Catholicism, were not suppossed to be interested(even though they were)in enteraintment as such. And again, even here, indulgence was very class oriented.

The "everybody else" class - even though it too was greatly governed by education and income status - was much less restricted. The bourgeoise had their own "salons", but for the mass of the people, there was very little to entertain them: church calendar,celebrated holidays; an occassional drunk, when one could be afforded; illegal wagering,etc. With the exception of church events, most of the above was restricted to the men; women on the whole, unless you belonged to the aristocracy, were considered generally to be of little value, were of little or no social consequence.

Unfortuanately, unless you were a member of the nobility and resided most of the year at Louis 14th Versailles - where one could frolic, indulge sexual appetites, and life in general must have been quite grand and glorious - life was pretty grim and grindingly,dismal and grizzled for everyone else.

This example in general could be applied to nearly all of europe; and in most instances was no ways near as good as it was in France.

Hope you're not disappointed.

Wotan

Answer 2

a social gathering in lately in basic terms about continually protected some style of stay musical performance (recorded song having no longer been invented yet). it would were a multi-piece band, or only one individual with a guitar or a mess round, and frequently featured dancing or sing alongs. human beings also traded memories and jokes, and performed quite some video games with darts, playing cards, and dice. Royal courts on the time frequently had masquerade activities, yet coming so quickly after Halloween, that would no longer artwork besides for you. have relaxing at your social gathering!

Answer 3

there where alot of plays, and musical plays. they also had opera and/or often just gather around the family fire in their house and read or sing or maybe play some games...