Презентация на тему Elizabethan theatre

Based on the original as accurately as possible.

the Thames – in a rather lawless area of

to announce the play was about to start

– which encourages pickpockets & other criminals to try

rich and the very poor

sons & grandsons of actors

in the film ‘Shakespeare in Love’. Allowing actors to

by their wealthy patrons

balconies & modern ‘groundlings’.

the Civil War. His father had been executed and

had been shut – as they were ‘ungodly’ and

king) theatre, music and dance had been forbidden as

Puritans thought sinful and ungodly. He reopened the theatres

started off as an orange seller at the theatre

afternoon – in dimly lit theatres. The actors had

the actors might wear something vaguely historic on top

the style of acting was very exaggerated. Actors (especially

with the audience for outrageousness.

of Hamlet

Garrick. He was an actor and a manager –

bad reputation and he set about reforming it from

He insisted that his actors turned up for rehearsals!
That they turned up for performances on time and not drunk!
He tried to get the prostitutes off the stage and made sure that his actresses were respectable women.

quality of the audience:
He stopped people leaving half way

During this time there were many social changes.

socialise – especially if you could afford a box.

the turn of the 20th century.

and costumes were often rich and decorative.

and language rather rough and vulgar. They censored some

– rather than earthy & real!

a highly sentimental way – often with complex scenery

savage.

the 1920’s was very modern at the time.

to the modern audience –which some theatre goers still

into a major film reinterpreted the play for a

stabbed in the street – Juliet surviving.

play in the 1960s. He used actual Italian locations

the play relevant to modern audiences. Romeo & Juliet

Claire Danes.