Bear Garden
About Bear Garden
The Beargarden was a facility for bear-baiting, bull-baiting, and other "animal sports" in the London area during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the Elizabethan era to the English Restoration period. Baiting is a blood sport where an animal is tormented or attacked by another animal, often dogs, for the purpose of entertainment or gambling. Samuel Pepys visited the venue in 1666 and described it as "a rude and nasty pleasure". The last recorded event at the Beargarden was the baiting of "a fine but vicious horse" in 1682.
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There is a road called Bear Garden now on the South Bank, near the spots where this happened.
from No Such Thing As Dudley And The Dippers, 2025-02-20 at 00:27:29 · read transcript
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It was a real movement. They even try to, at the arenas, which would usually be the Bear Gardens in London, where you would usually go to see a bear fighting a monkey, which was a massively popular thing back in the day. They even tried to set up galleries where women could go and watch it, so the upper-class women could come and see it and say, oh, this is a womanly thing as well as a male thing.
No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect, 2021-02-19 · listen
I read a lot of articles about it for this. One thing I really liked about it is they sometimes did it in pubs and they do seem to have had Bear Gardens, which is where they did the fighting. Yeah. Which is just like- Is that where we get Bear Garden? I think. Yeah, lots of play. I remember there's a troll of, I think the way we live now has the Bear Garden as the gentlemen's club they go to.
571: No Such Thing As Dudley And The Dippers, 2025-02-20 · listen
It was a private showing. I asked Dr. Matthew Green about the Globe thing and he said, to be fair, Queen Elizabeth didn't need to go to the Globe. Shakespeare came to her. It's not as if she was against Shakespearean plays, but she did go to one of the Bear Garden places. And- Because the Bears wouldn't go to her. The Bears wouldn't go to her. They were drunk in the pub.
571: No Such Thing As Dudley And The Dippers, 2025-02-20 · listen
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