Much like today, the key entertainment for Elizabethan London was: sports, visual entertainment (plays, for the time), and gambling.
Tennis, in particular, became a particularly popular sport during the Elizabethan age while artists like Shakespeare came to prominence with plays that the common masses enjoyed.
<span>A significant concept that influenced Renaissance artists, many philosophers, and political leaders was "natural rights", since this had been a leading theme in the Enlightenment. </span>
I think it was because Arabs and Jews in the region were becoming more nationalistic.