The Elizabethan Theater : The Globe Theater

The theatre has been a part of entertainment since ancient Greece, around 4th century BC or thereabouts. The theatre grew out of festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Aeschylus created the first play in her honor. The first Greek plays were all tragedies but eventually comedy made its way and these plays were performed at festivals all over Greece. Through the centuries theater played the main role of entertainment from noble and royalty to the common person in any city or village, and as we move into the twenties

The Globe theatre was built in 1599 in Southwark, London. The theatre is a 20 sided circle and 3 stories tall building. The theatre was built out of frame, plaster, bricks, and thatching. The theatre also can hold thousands of people at one time. Many of Shakespeare’s plays are preformed there including Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet. The Theatre was for performances but also for

Theater and theatrical performances are as old as time and thanks to Shakespeare, there are incredible pieces for performers and audiences alike to enjoy for the next several thousand years. The circular design of the theater created a bond between the actors on the stage and the audience. The Globe brought together people of all castes and unified them through theater. As long as someone had a penny to spare, they could see a show at The Globe, allowing everyone the unique theatrical experience The Globe provided. The Globe still offers performances and camps for youth to learn about theater in the place where Shakespeare entertained. This fact alone is a testament to the importance of The Globe and Shakespeare’s works. With the efforts of Shakespeare, his troupe, and other actors and writers of his time theater has grown into a unifying form of entertainment for all people (possibly even across The Globe). The Globe will forever serve as the home that raised theatrical performances into the extravagant, sometimes life changing, experiences they have become and will always continue to

William Shakespeare’s character Hamlet once said, “To be or not to be: that is the question whether tis nobler in mind to suffer…”. Music, poetry, and plays were important parts of entertainment during the Elizabethan era. Musicians composed new types of music, poets expressed their feeling through poetry, and playwrights wrote plays of different types of genres. Social classes and gender roles also contributed to the entertainment culture. During the Elizabethan era, people were entertained by sources of entertainment, such as plays, music, and poetry.

From the violence that was prevalent because of the Black Death, people turned to the theater for many reasons. Elizabethan theatre was popular for its time because Queen Elizabeth encouraged the arts, it was somewhere for every social class to go, and people could relate to the plays. One of the reasons that Elizabethan theatre was so popular was that it was enjoyed by Queen Elizabeth herself. Elizabeth loved learning new things. She would read and study for hours at a time. She also had a lot of knowledge when it came to history. She could read books in Latin and French. When she grew older, she could translate classic works into English. She also enjoyed writing and reading poetry, and a few of her poems still exist today. Elizabeth was also into arts and literature. She loved watching plays and dramatic performances. “She hired her own company of actors called “The Queen’s Players.” The art spread because of the queen. Her

cost 1 penny, to sit cost 2 pennies and for a wealthy person to sit

Elizabethan society discouraged and encouraged shakespeare's writings by becoming a very popular person to the public. He became a very big public person by being an actor, a playwright, and very big part of a company. The website states, “As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known” (“Shakespeare’s life”). This quote explains how he became very well known to the public because he made many achievements. Shakespeare

Due to the increasing popularity of music, theater became popular itself. Location was very important to a theater musician, as the location gave different effects to the sound produced. This could create the illusion of distance or providing an atmosphere to the plays and performances. With the rise of William Shakespeare in 1556, theater music became even more popular.

The project I did for the Shakespeare project was building The Globe Theater. I decided to do this project because I enjoy building different things with my hands. I worked on this project with a partner. I enjoyed working with a partner rather than alone because I like to have fun while I do projects.

The interest in writing about the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre has been manifested in the entire essay especially in the first two paragraphs of the essay. At the point where Greco identifies her particular concern which was the actor-audience relationship in the globe, Greco categorically indicates her interests in writing about the reconstruction of the Globe theatre which in essence grew out of her experience of the Globe Theatre. It is clear from the essay that even in the early days of the reconstruction efforts, investigation of the relationship between the actor and the audience was some of the importance that had to be considered in the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre (Carson & Karim-Cooper, 2008). In this sense, they focused

As a sweeper in London, I am proud to say that I’ve finally been able to enter the Globe Theater to see “Romeo and Juliet.” Though the area around the theater has prostitutes and murders, that did not stop from the play being amazing. I had saved four pennies in a few weeks in order to watch the play. Usually as a sweeper, you would pay one penny and stand and watch the actors preform, but I was in fact able to sit with higher classes in society.

His plays became popular quickly, as live shows were one of the only forms of enertainment, which compared to our life here is completely different, we have movies video games, computers, and still today we pay money to see our favorite plays performed in front of us, even some of shakespeares plays.

The theater held about 3,000 people. Flags were used to alert individuals what performance would be showing because many of the Lower Class were still illiterate. When the plague struck London in 1603, many of the London playhouses were shut down including the Globe. Actors and play writers such as William Shakespeare and his acting troupe fled the to the country in the hopes of escaping the plague. The Globe was reopened once the plague had ended, but it was closed again in 1613 due to a fire. A performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII shot cannons during a certain scene, which happened to catch the ceiling on fire. The theater burned completely in less than two hours. Another theater was built to replace the original, but its thought that Shakespeare did not write plays any

It provided a place where they could learn and entertain themselves. Another social factor that affected the theater would have been the fashion. Theaters were expected to show the significance silk, velvet and ruffles. This was supposed to encourage trade and separate the difference between the classes. Famous playwrights like Shakespeare would have represented the wealthy actors by making them wear extravagant clothing, whereas the commoners would be wearing ripped clothes.

I have a few concerns about the globe theater, although, I would like to focus on one extremely tragic problem that shouldst be brought to thy attention. This problem shouldst be fixed immediately! It pains me to inform you, but unfortunately thy globe theater lacks a place where one may purchase snacks. I’m afraid that a lack of a place, where one may purchase beloved snacks of which, one may feast upon while watching one of thy plays is truly unsettling. Many more people wouldst travel to see thy plays, the sweet taste of chocolates calling their names, people would begin to flock towards thy theater.