William SHAKESPEARE and the Theatre in Elizabethan time. The Globe.
ELIZABETHAN THEATRE & THE GLOBE MATIS LEIMA XI A.
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ELIZABETHAN THEATRE
&
THE GLOBE
MATIS LEIMA XI A
TERMINOLOGY
• The term "Elizabethan theatre", covers only the plays written and performed publicly in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558–1603)
THEATRES
• The Theatre 1576
• Curtain Theatre 1577
• The Rose 1587
• The Swan 1595
• The Globe 1599
• The Fortune 1600
• Red Bull 1604
• No plays allowed within the city
THE GLOBE
• Built in 1599
• In use until 1613
• Burned to the ground
• The site of the theatre was rediscovered
• A reconstruction was built: “Shakespeare’s Globe” in 1997
STRUCTURE
• individual differences
• yet a similar general plan
• three stories high
• built around an open space
• polygonal in plan
• the stage – a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience
• Entrances, exits and seating for the musicians
• built of timber
• thatched roofs
COSTUMES
• the main visual appeal on stage was in the costumes
• often bright in color
• expensive
• usually players wore contemporary clothing
• a lead character would wear a more historically accurate clothing
PLAYWRIGHTS
• No women
• Men from modest backgrounds
• Educated at either Oxford or Cambridge
• The majority do not seem to have been performers
• Christopher Marlowe was killed in an apparent tavern brawl
• Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel
• Several soldiers
• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• Ben Jonson
THE END