The next disaster which closed the Globe theatre was the fire of The Globe theatre fire accident occurred on 29 June and the original Globe burned to the ground. Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in It was destroyed in to make room for tenements.
Theatres had to compete for audiences against other London entertainment. In , London theatres were banned from performing on Thursdays because 'the players do recite their plays to the hurt of bear-baiting, maintained for Her Majesty's pleasure'. Nobles bought seats on the stage because they could be seen by the whole audience. They went to the theatre to show off their clothes and be admired by the lower classes.
The only person who did not go to the theatre was Queen Elizabeth I herself — but she loved plays too. William Shakespeare and acting Shakespeare seems to have been associated at various times with different companies of actors 'players' as they are called in Hamlet , who were attached to different theatres.
However in January the theatres were closed because of an outbreak of plague in London. William did indeed make a number of substantial, documented investments — house, land, tithes etc.
The Shakespeare family investments began before William became part owner of the Globe and ended just as the Blackfriars started to generate cash. When Shakespeare was born in , Queen Elizabeth had been on the throne for six years. King James ascended to the throne in , 13 years before Shakespeare's death. The Black plague was a disease that swept through Europe during Shakespeare's life.
It is not surprising that in Hamlet Shakespeare shows such knowledge of acting and of companies of players. How to plan an essay Possible essay questions Engaging with the text Resources and further reading Booklist Website resources Theatre and media Worksheet downloads Timeline of Shakespeare's works.
What was Shakespeare's last play? The Two Noble Kinsmen. How many owners of the original Globe theater were there? How did Shakespeare change the Theatre? Theater, in particular, has experienced many changes due to his influence. For example, the way in which Shakespeare's plots move forward has helped define modern play-writing. As a result, journeys in his plays are dynamic and his characters undergo a significant amount of change while on them.
Who watched Shakespeare plays? Shakespeare wrote his palys for everybody, so there were many social classes, who went to see his plays. Who went to the Theatre in Shakespeare's time? The lower middle class paid a penny for admittance to the yard like the yard outside a school building , where they stood on the ground, with the stage more or less at eye level—these spectators were called groundlings. The term English Renaissance theatre encompasses the period between —following a performance of Gorboduc, the first English play using blank verse, at the Inner Temple during the Christmas season of —and the ban on theatrical plays enacted by the English Parliament in The longest play is Hamlet, which is the only Shakespeare play with more than thirty thousand words, and the shortest is The Comedy of Errors, which is the only play with fewer than fifteen thousand words.
The Black Death also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from to How much did it cost? For another penny, you could have a bench seat in the lower galleries which surrounded the yard. The rich paid two pennies for entrance to the galleries, covered seating at the sides. The rich paid three pennies to sit in the higher galleries, which had a better view. The cheapest seats were not seats at all, but standing admission, which would have cost one penny, or two pennies for use of a bench.
This would have been for peasants and farmers, tradesmen and their families, who would come to the theatre to make a day of it in the open air. Theatres were closed to prevent public disorder and remained closed for 18 years, causing considerable hardship to professional theatre performers, managers and writers. Speculation 1: Shakespeare moved to London to pursue a career in theater. Speculation 4: Shakespeare went to London for work in order to provide for his family financially.
Shakespeare invested in tithe shares as well as property in Stratford after his move to London. The H1N1 influenza A pandemic of — colloquially, but likely inaccurately, known as the Spanish flu remains the deadliest pandemic of the modern age, with estimates of mortality ranging from 17 million to million from an estimated million infections globally approximately a third of the global.
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