bear baiting, a familiar type of entertainment, involves a submissive animal and vicious dogs and humans provoking the animal into suffering whereas the positioning and expressions of the animals and men in Bear Baiting in Saxton Times by Richard Caton Woodville suggests bear baiting to involve a violent beast who is coerced into fighting to the death for the joy of the spectators. Many artists created pieces of art that portray bear baiting. However, they show various perspectives of the entertainment
his kingly duties. Trade and commerce improved, foreign relations improved, he died solvent and his treatment of the nobility and his councils was mainly sound. However, his over-reliance on nobles, his unproductive attack on Scotland and the Woodville marriage were all political mistakes that show that his inability to ensure an undisputed succession was not in fact his only failure.