Welcome to the Theater!!

By: Shelby YostThe Elizabethan Age/ The English Renaissance

Theaters:

• The theaters during the Elizabethan Era include the Globe, the Theatre, Newington Butts, the Curtain Elizabethan Theatre, the Rose Theatre, the Swan Theatre, the Fortune Elizabethan Theatre, the Boars Head , the Bear Garden, the Bull Ring and the Hope Elizabethan Theatre.

Staring…

• The reputations of Elizabethan actors were that of vagabonds and thieves because traveling around was frown upon and you had to have a license to travel.

Elizabethan Theatre - the Inn-yards

• Travelling actors played to their audiences in the courtyards of taverns, which is how they got the name of the Inn-yards.

• The biggest of the Inn-yards had a maximum capacity of 500 people which wasn’t a lot to them but was for the spaces.

• A theatrical entrepreneur called James Burbage, obtained a lease and permission to build 'The Theatre' in Shoreditch, London.

Elizabethan Theatre: The Globe • The Globe was a new theater and the

most famous actor was William Shakespeare who acted and wrote plays for the Globe theater.

• The Globe Productions included the most famous early plays of William Shakespeare.

• Plays and Propaganda - Plays produced at the Globe theater had to be vetted to ensure that no unwanted propaganda was spread to the masses of Londoners.

• Fire at the Globe Theatre broke out in June 29 1613.

• The second Globe Theatre was built shortly after in 1614.

Credits:• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/map-sites-elizabethan-theatres.htm• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/history-of-the-elizabethan-theatre.htm • http://

www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-old-globe-theatre-picture.htm