Transcript The Elizabethan Theatre

The Elizabethan Theatre
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The first place plays were performed
Courtyards
Known as “Strolling Players”
Actors, jugglers, and tumblers
Collected money with hats
The whole town would shut down to watch the
performances
• Began the idea of open air theaters
• Gave actors the labels of being beggars
Amphitheatres
• The Theatre was the first
• The same materials were used in building The
Globe
• Built like the Roman amphitheatres
• Round, square, or octagonal
• Could accommodate 3,000 people
• 3:00 summer; 2:00 winter
• Flag raised to signal play; trumpet would play
Playhouses
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$$$$$
Indoor
Night and winter performances
500 people
Luxurious
Lit by candles
Costumes
Actors
• Traveling troupes
• 16th century wanted patrons to gain
respectability
• Adult companies and boys’ choirs
• NO WOMEN OR GIRLS
• Large repertory of plays
Costumes
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Clothes were determined by wealth
Elaborate and colorful
To change character, just change costume
Always contemporary clothing
Sound effects
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Music
Thunder, horses, rain
Poetic dialogue
Give information
Soliloquies
Asides
Monologues