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Welcome to the Theater!!

The Elizabethan Age/ The English Renaissance. Welcome to the Theater!!. By: Shelby Yost. Theaters:.

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Welcome to the Theater!!

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  1. The Elizabethan Age/ The English Renaissance Welcome to the Theater!! By: Shelby Yost

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

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