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Shakespearean Theatre
• Very popular with the upper and lower classes
• The audiences of the time also enjoyed bear baiting, public executions, processions through the street, fencing etc.
• People were far more hardened to acts of cruelty and violence that’s we are today.
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The Theatre and Stage
• Stages were very basic and there were few props
• The playwright had to use words to create vivid images in the mind of the audience
• All the women’s roles were played by young boys whose voices had not yet broken
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Shakespeare
• Born in 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon
• Died in 1616
• Poet, playwright and actor
• Wrote ‘Romeo and Juliet’ some time between 1594 and 1596
• It is not based on a true story