Download elizabethan theatre

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