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Elizabethan Drama
Theatre buildings
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Prior to 1576, plays frequently performed at inns
1576 – The Theatre
1577 – Curtain Theatre
1587 – The Rose
1595 – The Swan
1599 – The Globe
1600 – Fortune
1604 – The Red Bull
1599-1629 - Indoor theatres: Blackfriars,
Whitefriars, Cockpit, Salisbury Court Theatre
Three types of stage
The Globe Stage
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Outer stage
Inner stage
Upper stage
Hell
Actors' entrances
Special effects level
The Performance
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All the actors were men or boy apprentices
Hearing the play / viewing the play
Setting created through dialogue
Many stage props
Elaborate costumes (but anachronisms)
Audience participation
Mimesis – realism - illusion
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Definition of mimesis
Puritans mainly reacted against theatre as
“trickery” and actors as “con men”
“Illusions are the Devil’s work!”
The plays of the age became deliberately antimimetic to quieten this view
Anti-mimetic devices: the artificial language,
boys playing women, soliloquies, threedimensional playing, familiarity with actors,
metatheatrical jokes etc.
Performance Conditions
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Great crowd – traffic - “parking” problems
Plays lasted 2-3 hours
Food and drink – apples, nuts, water, bottle ale
“Toilets” in the corridors (buckets) or the river
Smells: the industries, perfume, tobacco, garlic
The hats
Cutpurses, prostitutes, fights, riots
Special effects
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The blood, gore, limbs
Trapdoors in floor and ceiling
Wires, ropes and harnesses
Cannon in the attic
Fireworks
Sound effects