Elizabethan Theatre

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Elizabethan Theatre

• Terminology

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• The Globe Theatre 1599 1613
• Shakespeare was part owner
• design was theatre in the round
• Open-roofed
• Up to 1500 patrons could fit into the
  theatre
• Plays performed only during the day
• Groundlings were on the ground near
  stage
• Burned down in 1613.
• Rebuilt torn down in 1644 by Puritans
• Reopened in 1997 near original location.

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Types of Plays

• Comedy
• Romance
• Tragedy
• History

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Stage Design

• Stage extended out into the audience.
• Theatre design was round or polygonal
• Three levels tall
• Stage had stage right stage left doors
• Trap door was used on stage
• Design more effective than picture-frame
• stage design used today.

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Basic Facts of theatre Production

• Plays were staged during the afternoon
• Sets were not used.
• Background curtain tapestries used
• Fluidity of scenes no pauses between acts
• Audiences were often loud, but also attentive.
• Setting was accomplished through dialoguereason
  for wordiness of Shakespeare plays.

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The Globe c. 1600
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Plan of the Globe
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Cross Section of Globe
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The New Globe
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New Globe Inside View from Stage
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New Globe Performance
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Stage Hanging at New Globe
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Script Page from A Shakespeare Play
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Gallery View of New Globe Audience
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Actor
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Actors
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Daytime scene at New Globe
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Frame of New Globe, c.1992
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Birds Eye View of The Globe
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A View of The Heavens in The Globe
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View From The Balcony of The Globe
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Panoramic View from Inside