Theatres in England

• Before

  • Bible Stories.
  • Stage in street.
  • No professional actors
• After

  • Comedy, Tragedy, History.
  • Stages in taverns - theatres built.
  • Professional actors - acting companies.
• Elizabethan Theatre

  A) Tiered Seating

  B) Flag

  C) Tiring Room

  D) Pit

  E) Stage

  F) Lords Room

  G) The Heavens

  
• • Tiered Seating: Comfort seats.
  • Flag: Tells people there's a play.
  • Tiring Room: Backstage.
  • Pit "Yard" "Grounding": Open to weather.
  • Stage: Acting.
  • Lords Room: The Wealthiest seats.
  • The Heavens: Storage/ Special Effects.
• Patronage of the Arts: Nobles support actors to profit for themselves.
• Who Opposed the Theatre & why? The Puritans.

  • Puritans didn't like the drinking and the disorderly behaviour.
  • They didn't like the 'sinful' messages of the plays because they were no longer about Christianity.
  • They showed their opposition by attempting to limit theatres and by shutting down theatres built on Puritan land.
• Who Opposed the Theatre & why? Queen and Privy Council.

  • With the plays they disliked, the Queen and the Privy Council banned and destroyed them.
  • They were worried about the bad projection of the Queen and political messages.
  • They controlled plays by checking and censoring them.
• Who Opposed the Theatre & why? Local Government

  • They thought the plague was going to spread.
  • The local governments were worried about crime and disease being spread.
  • Local Governments showed their opposition by banning plays within the city walls.