Transcript The Globe PPT 2014

The Globe Theatre
Katherine Wiley- Horn Lake High School
The Globe Theatre
• In 1599 when “The Theatre,” the first permanent
theatre in England, was torn down, the wood was
used for building The Globe Theatre across the
Thames River from London in Southwark, a
major entertainment area of the time.
The Globe Theatre
The religious leaders in London
considered plays to be immoral so they
were banned in the city of London. That is
why the theater was built in Southwark.
The Globe Theatre
• The Globe Theatre was an open-air
building with so many sides that it
appeared to be circular.
• It held nearly 3,000 people.
• Shakespeare called this theatre “the
wooden O.”
• It was three stories high, with a large
platform stage that projected from one
end into a yard open to the sky.
Interior view of The Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre
• Laws prohibited theatre managers
from advertising, so to announce that
a play was being staged they would
raise a flag and
play a trumpet
The Globe Theatre
• Different colored flags represented
what type of play was being
performed that day.
•
= history
= comedy
= tragedy
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• Plays were performed between two and
five in the afternoon when the sun would
not be too bright and darkness had not
yet fallen. WHY?
• NO ELECTRICITY!
• The roof of The Globe was made of straw
and the middle of the building was open
to the sky to allow the natural light in.
The Globe Theatre—aerial view
The Globe Theatre
• A show would last about two and a half hours
• There were no acts, but frequent intermissions
• The end of scenes was indicated by “rhymed tags” or
a change in actors
• There was little to no scenery, but there was elaborate
props and costumes to give reality—a prologue set
the scene
• The stage was “set” by the language
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• Because the theatre itself contained three levels,
actors utilized all three levels to help with
scenery.
• Devices such as trap doors, scaffolds were used
to produce scenery or make scenery or actors
disappear (ex—trees, gods, ghosts, etc.)
• Because of the closeness of the stage to the
audience, asides and soliloquies could effectively
be used
The Globe Theatre
• People who paid the most money were seated in
the balcony. Usually these were the people in the
upper class—the Lords and Gentry
• People who paid a penny could stand at the front
of the stage. These people were called groundlings
and were usually from the lower class.
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• Acting was not considered a respectable profession
for women
• ALL of the characters in plays were played by men.
• Female roles were played by young boys between
the ages of six and eighteen.
• Because there were very few boys in Shakespeare’s
company at one time, there were very few women’s
roles in Shakespeare’s plays and very few romantic
scenes.
An Elizabethan actor had to be
an expert in…
• fencing
elocution
• tumbling
acting
• dancing
music
The Globe Theatre
• Shakespeare loved to put Queen Elizabeth
and her family in his plays, but he had to be
very careful—she had the power to behead
him if she did not like what she read.
• He generally portrayed her and her family
as the saviors of England
.
The Destruction of the Globe
Theatre x 2
In 1613, a canon that was being used for
special effects was fired during a performance
and caught the roof of The Globe on fire. It
burned to the ground.
It was rebuilt in 1614, only to be destroyed
by the Puritans in 1643. They outlawed plays and
attending the theatre, making it a crime
punishable by seizure, whipping, and a fine.
The Globe Theatre
A replica of the Globe was built in 1999, 400
meters from the site of the original. It was constructed
using traditional materials, with very few modifications,
so that it is as close to the original as possible.
Shakespeare: the Playwright
• The Globe Theatre is the theatre where Shakespeare
wrote most of his plays.
• He was inspired by other playwrights and their works
including Seneca, Plautus, Ovid, Plutarch’s Lives,
Holinshed’s Chronicles, Italian plays, and Marlow’s
plays about kings in Greece and Rome—he did not
get ideas from his personal life or local London
material.
• He wrote at least thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets.
• He wrote easily to please his audiencehe was intuitively creative and
made his characters real.
Things to Note about
Shakespeare’s Style
• Use of Puns: humorous play on words indicating
different meanings
• Use of Metaphors: comparing something in terms of
something else
• Use of Conceits: whimsical, extravagant, fanciful ideas
• Use of Soliloquies: somebody speaking to himself
• Use of Asides: saying something to the
audience that other players
cannot hear
• Use of Blank Verse: unrhymed
iambic pentameter