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	English Renaissance theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such 'Elizabethan theatre' is distinguished from Jacobean theatre (associated with the reign of King James I, 1603-1625), and Caroline theatre (associated with King Charles I, 1625 until the closure of the theatres in 1642).
		In practice, however, 'Elizabethan theatre' is often used as a general term for all English drama from the Reformation to the closure of the theatre in 1642, thus including both Jacobean and Caroline drama.
		A 1596 sketch of a performance in progress on the thrust stage of The Swan, a typical circular Elizabethan open-roof playhouse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabethan_theatre (1288 words)

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Elizabethan theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To see that the Elizabethan era in theatre, one of the most important eras in Western theatre history, is covered comprehensively.
		All articles relating to Elizabethan drama should be tagged with the project tag.
		WikiProject Elizabethan theatre, an attempt to create a comprehensive and detailed resource on the theatre and dramatic literature in England between 1558 and 1642.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Elizabethan_theatre (728 words)

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		One of the most memorable stages of Elizabethan time was the The Globe Theater, a 17th -century English theater in Southwark, London, notable for the initial and contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays and of the dramatic works of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and others.
		The octagonally-shaped outer wall of the theater enclosed a roofless inner pit into which the stage projected; around the pit were three galleries, one above the other, the topmost of which was roofed with thatch.
		Elizabethan clothing was very intricate, and the amount of time that must have been consumed in donning costumes with so many independent parts to be tied or pinned together is a marvel to the modern observer.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/costumes.html (939 words)

	Shakespeare in American Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She was fond of the theater, and many of England’s greatest playwrights were active during her reign, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare.
		With her permission, professional theaters were built in England for the first time, attracting 15,000 theatergoers per week in London, a city of 150,000 to 250,000.
		Elizabethan society was based on a system of precedence (one’s ranking in society) and one’s preferment status (the king or queen’s view of one’s standing).
	www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org /about/e_society.html (1100 words)

	Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences
		They said that the plays were often lewd and profane, that play-actors were mostly vagrant, irresponsible, and immoral people; that taverns and disreputable houses were always found in the neighborhood of the theaters, and that the theater itself was a public danger in the way of spreading disease.
		All this was contrary to the practice of the Elizabethans, who tried to suppress the shows, lost many of their most precious manuscripts, and banished the plays to a place outside the city walls.
		- A biographical sketch of the Elizabethan dramatist.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/bellinger001.html (2375 words)

	Globe Theatre
		Elizabethans sought relief from their harsh lives by attending plays and other forms of entertainment, which made the theater so important to Elizabethan culture.
		The Globe Theatre was rebuilt primarily for the fall of the previous theater.
		The role of the theaters of the Elizabethan Era proved to be a very important one.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/history/his095.php (1346 words)

	Theater in Shakespeare
		Elizabethan actors had to fight against the deeply rooted idea of the time that plays were an evil and ungodly form of amusement which kept men from their work or more wholesome activities.
		The theaters were located in the seediest London liberties, rife with thieves and swindlers, another reason for disapproving Puritans and local authorities to link actors with the other "bad elements" of the time in their ongoing quest to shut the theaters down.
		Elizabethan audiences were forced to listen more closely to the actors' dialogue in order to understand the action and meaning of a play.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~kreschke/theater.htm (1710 words)

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		Dancing in the Elizabethan Age was considered "a wholesome recreation of the mind and also an exercise of the body" (Davis 240).
		Theaters were mostly to be found in London, near the court.
		Elizabethan theater was the work of a few men: proprietors, actors, playwrights and workmen.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/amusements.html (1109 words)

	Elizabethan Actors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Travelling Elizabethan Actors were considered such a threat that that regulations were imposed and licenses were granted to the aristocracy for the maintenance of troupes of players!
		A play could attract as many as 3000 people to the theater and the Elizabethan actors were the equivalent of today's superstars.
		During the Elizabethan era only men were allowed to act in the theatre until 1660 - it was judged to be unseemly for a woman to undertake such a role.
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /elizabethan-actors.htm (819 words)

	Elizabethan Theatre Audiences
		Special effects were also a spectacular addition at the Elizabethan theaters thrilling the audiences with smoke effects, the firing of a real canon, fireworks (for dramatic battle scenes) and spectacular 'flying' entrances from the rigging in the 'heavens'.
		The Elizabethan general public (the Commoners) referred to as groundlings would pay 1 penny to stand in the 'Pit' of the Globe Theater.
		Sewage was buried in pits or disposed of in the River Thames.
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /elizabethan-theatre-audiences.htm (609 words)

	An Introduction to Shakespeare's Life and Times
		The Elizabethan theatre was a thriving popular source of entertainment, with buildings, stagecraft and conventions (there were no actresses, for example, and female roles were taken by boys) which were all major influences on the texts created for them.
		While this lack may have been beneficial to subsequent generations of players, who have felt no need to respond to an "authentic" presentation, it is particularly frustrating to students of the age.
		What is known is that costumes were an essential component of the Elizabethan theatre, and were probably more significant than props, although key scenes would have demanded the use of a bed or a table.
	www.fathom.com /course/28701903/session3.html (1288 words)

	Elizabethan Revenge in Hamlet
		Hamlet without Seneca is inconceivable.” During the time of Elizabethan theater, plays about tragedy and revenge were very common and a regular convention seemed to be formed on what aspects should be put into a typical revenge tragedy.
		With this play, Elizabethan theater received its first great revenge tragedy, and because of the success of this play, the dramatic form had to be imitated.
		The death was considered by Elizabethan people as a fair one, therefore a problem occurred when Andrea’s ghost appeared to seek vengeance on its killer.
	www.field-of-themes.com /shakespeare/essays/Ehamlet2.htm (2407 words)

	Essays.cc - Queen Elizabeths Lasting Effect On Theater
		Elizabethan theater has such a variety of topics, that would make it virtually impossible to talk about in ten pages.
		Although Elizabeth found this hugely diverting, theater was her entertainment of choice, for Elizabeth found such cruel spectacles...an unattractive feature of the age (Somerset 367).
		The Puritans found Elizabeth's interest in theater to be utterly reprehensible, actors to be a contemptible breed, and the theaters that they performed in nothing more than brothels (Somerset 368).
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/g6/ykd179.shtml (2243 words)

	William Shakespeare - The Globe Theater
		During the 1500s in England a burst of literary accomplishments arose that was never before seen in the history of the theater.
		For years, this one theater acted as the center of the town, where the most famous plays were shown.
		How one man can change a person's life style, and transform a plain and simple theater to a historical artifact to be known for years to come is remarkable.
	www.e-scoala.ro /referate/engleza_shakespeare_globe.html (1105 words)

	Elizabethan Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		How Elizabethan Theatre emerged from strolling players to performing in the yards of Inns, or Inn-yards, to purpose built theaters based on the huge open air amphitheatres of Ancient Rome and Greece to the comfort of enclosed Playhouses.
		Was Elizabethan theater entertainment and drama for both the rich and the poor of the era ?
		Theaters are still popular today and most visitors to London visit at least one of the theaters.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /elizabethan-theaters.htm (771 words)

	Shakespeare in American Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In spite of its popularity, the Elizabethan theater attracted criticism, censorship, and scorn from some sectors of English society.
		Acting was not considered an appropriate profession for women in the Elizabethan era, and even into the seventeenth century acting companies consisted of men with young boys playing the female roles.
		Elizabethan theaters were makeshift, dirty, and loud, but nevertheless they attracted audiences as large as 3,000 from all social classes.
	www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org /about/e_theater.html (589 words)

	Elizabethan Theater
		Drama changed literature and theater into what it is today.
		cornerstone of Elizabethan Drama were, in fact, the theater houses themselves.
		theater they lived for are still recognized and appreciated.
	www.technotv.net /Theatre/Elizabethan-Theater.html (942 words)

	Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Diana Price
		Elizabethan gentlemen wrote for others in their social circle with no thought of seeing their compositions in print.
		As Steven May, the leading authority on Elizabethan courtier poets, has demonstrated, those Elizabethan gentlemen who wrote at all (a small minority) published quite a bit and were not disgraced thereby.
		Staged plays might be merely entertainment and thus the fit recipients of the attacks that the Puritans were waging against the theater at that moment, but the drama as a literary text engages the mind seriously and leads to important discoveries about the nature of life.
	www.shakespeare-authorship.com /resources/stigma.asp (5334 words)

	Shakespeare's Globe Theater
		It was in 1594 when the theaters of London, including the Theatre and soon the Swan Theatre (1595), reopened that Shakespeare emerged as the powerhouse of a revitalized and extraordinarily vibrant Elizabethan stage world.
		Appearing as "Chamberlain's Men," Shakespeare's acting/production company dominated the London theater scene during both the last decade of Elizabeth reign and, after 1603, under her Jacobean Age successor, James I. Indeed, under James I, Shakespeare's troop was re-dubbed "His Majesty's Servants," its principals enjoying an exalted status as members of James I's royal household.
		As the disapproval of the Globe and its counterparts by London's town fathers suggests, the Elizabethan theater and the acting companies that animated it were looked upon askance by at least some conservative elements in England.
	www.enotes.com /william-shakespeare/shakespeares-globe-theater (1925 words)

	Theater Pro
		At the Elizabethan Swan Theatre in Stratford, five plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries are being staged in repertory, the most enjoyable so far (with two to arrive later in the summer) being the city comedy by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.
		Marston was a sharer in that company, in which boys performed the women’s roles, a convention of the Elizabethan theater.
		The Swan, like the Elizabethan stage, uses no set scenery, so that the action moves quickly from scene to scene, with good visuals like the besieged Black Prince hemmed in by ropes, which also are used to good effect for soldiers storming a town.
	www.theaterpro.com /playsshake.html (2939 words)

	Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To attempt to understand Elizabethan theater and culture only through a reading of Shakespeare is akin to interpreting American movie history only by looking at the films of Orson Welles or Alfred Hitchcock or Martin Scorcese.
		To use, in other words, the Elizabethan theater as an anamorphic lens for our own time, one which helps us to see ourselves differently and, thus, more completely.
		For by working to understand how the Elizabethans understood themselves—and thus the social forces, the habitus, that shaped their understanding—we can perhaps more clearly see the forces that shape us.
	www.umpi.maine.edu /~ricer/shakespeare/shake99.htm (1148 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bawdy Basket: An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell (Elizabethan Theater ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But, when one of the player's father is falsely convicted of murder and their author falls in love with a woman who wishes to support his art far from the theater, the company is rocked.
		Set in the Elizabethan theater scene, THE BAWDY BASKET gives a convincing view of the sights and smells of the time when theater reached its greatest peak.
		With so many Elizabethan theatre mystery novels being published almost everyday, (and most of them being quite good), I was relieved to note that Edward Marston has not lost his entertaining and witty touch, and that the Nicholas Bracewell mystery series still remains one of the best (as well as one of my favourites) around.
	amazon.com /Bawdy-Basket-Elizabethan-Featuring-Mysteries/dp/0312285019 (2076 words)

	Shakespeare's Globe Theater
		The theater was soon rebuilt and went on to enjoy many successes with Shakespeare's works.
		Studies were done to establish the approximate site of the theater and for construction to begin to build a new Globe Theater.
		In 1999, with construction finally complete, the Globe Theater reopened once more with a performance of Henry V, one of the first Shakespeare plays performed in the original Globe.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_for_children/18004/2 (354 words)

	Elizabethan Theater
		Elizabethan Theater was held in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. Queen Elizabeth had a big role concerning what the theatre was
		Theater conditions were extremely unsanitary; as a result,
		Elizabethan Theater had a heavy influence on the literature that
	www.chatham-nj.org /coin/English9/Gallart/ET.htm (404 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Elizabethan England
		At this time, London was the heart of England, reflecting all the vibrant qualities of the Elizabethan Age.
		Shakespeare outdid them all; he combined the best traits of Elizabethan drama with classical sources, enriching the admixture with his imagination and wit.
		Obviously includes an Elizabethan section, but this covers all other eras of world history as well.
	www.bardweb.net /england.html (590 words)

	Shakespeare's Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Proper Elizabethan Pronunciations: Meant for employees of a Renaissance Faire, but good enough for scholars.
		The two matters considered in depth are the relationship between the design of performance arenas in Elizabethan England and those of Ancient Rome, and Early Modern Plays with a Roman theme.
		Alice Griffin presents TheaterPro.com, A Magazine of the Theater Arts, and of special interest, the section titled Bard on the Boards, Shakespeare in London, New York and Film.
	shakespeare.palomar.edu /theatre.htm (637 words)

	History of Theater
		Images of a theater in Segesta, Sicily built around the 5th century, BC.
		The reconstruction of this famous theater in Athens.
		Check out the arts area with all of the 'isms' because this is a direct link to the theater but use it for general information only.
	teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us /astgeorg/hotlists/history_of_theater.htm (459 words)

	Elizabethan Theater Facts
		There were three different types of venues for Elizabethan plays: Inn-yards, Open air Amphitheatres and Playhouses.
		The first gallery would cost another penny in the box which was held by a collector at the front of the stairs.
		It consists of a diary note together with a sketch of the internal layout of the Swan Theatre.The amphitheatres were similar in design, so the picture of the Swan can be used a good guide to the structure and layout of the old Globe and other Elizabethan amphitheatres.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /elizabethan-theatre-facts.htm (1253 words)

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