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Elizabethan Theater

Elizabethan Theater. How is theater of the Elizabethan Era different from theater today? What modern day theater districts do you know of?. Theater District. Made up of 9 play houses or theaters Located outside of London’s city Pubs Taverns Bawdy Houses or Brothels - prostitutes.

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Elizabethan Theater

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  1. Elizabethan Theater • How is theater of the Elizabethan Era different from theater today? • What modern day theater districts do you know of?

  2. Theater District • Made up of 9 play houses or theaters • Located outside of London’s city • Pubs • Taverns • Bawdy Houses or Brothels - prostitutes. • Seedy area: pick-pockets & thieves

  3. The Globe: Stats. • Plays produced for the general public • No Roof • Round • No artificial lighting (no electricity) • Several sections: courtyard with pit surrounded with galleries

  4. The Globe: Seating • Cheapest seats = standing room only • Groundlings stood in the pit- Tickets only a PENNY! • Royalty & patrons sat in the galleries

  5. Advertising • Flags were used to advertise the type of play • They couldn’t use fliers or posters because most people were illiterate.

  6. Today: An advertisement for the Globe might look like this

  7. Actors • Vagabonds or vagrants - traveled • Perceived a threat - spread disease • Little time to rehearse - 3 weeks

  8. Props, Effects, & Costumes • Trap doors • Pig’s blood & guts • Harnesses & wires • Sheets of metal • Canons • Elaborate costumes - royal hand-me downs

  9. Main Patrons of the Globeof the Globe Do whatever you want, as long as it’s what I want. Lord Strange Lord Chamberlain King James I Queen Elizabeth I

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