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

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