Associated with Queen Elizabeth I

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• Associated with Queen Elizabeth Is Reign
• 1558-1603
• Sub-category of English Reneissance theatre

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• 1572 strolling players banned
• Nobles started their own companies
• Courtyards of inns
• 1576 the Theatre
• The Globe, the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, the
  Bear Garden etc.

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• Rarely two days in a row
• Played in the afternoon
• No women
• History play, tragedy, comedy ? city comedy
• Bear baiting, bull ring, gambling
• Cheap tickets

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Bear baiting
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• A clause
• Fashion shows
• Contemporary clothing
• Importance of colours
• Womens parts

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• Mainly from modest backgrounds
• Some educated at Oxford or Cambridge
• Plays were owned by the companies
• Collaborations
• William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Ben
  Jonson, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd.

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W. Shakespeare
C. Marlow
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• Built in 1599 of timber from the Theatre
• Owned mainly by actors
• 1613 burned down, rebuilt in 1614
• 1642 closed, 1644 pulled down
• 1970 american actor and director Sam Wanamaker
  founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust and
  Inernational Shakespeare Globe Centre
• 1997 Shakespeares Globe opened

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