The theatre in Elizabethan England
- Created by: 13mlilli
- Created on: 06-04-18 12:03
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- Theatre
- Playwrights
- William Shakespeare
- Produced new works/year - comedies, tragedies, histories
- Actors
- Entirely males
- Popular actors (eg. Richard Burbage) became v famous
- Popular ones often replayed parts or got parts written for them
- Threatre troupes
- The Lord Chamberlain's Men
- Shakespeare + Burbage
- Often named after their patron
- The Lord Chamberlain's Men
- First permanent theatres built
- Both rich + poor now attended
- Galleries = seated, covered areas
- Gentlemen's rooms = balconies + Lord's rooms = most expensive
- Pit = where ordinary people stood
- Why was the theatre so popular?
- Affordable
- Entertaining, social event
- Contempory + relevant to time
- Opposition to the theatre
- Some saw it as sinful
- Puritans saw it as distraction from prayer
- Large gatherings may spread disease
- Dangerous - drinking, crime, immoral behaviour
- Playwrights
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