Some of the special effects used by Shakespeare included cannon, trapdoors, wires, ropes and harnesses, fireworks, flowers and petals, music, live animals, bones, intestines and blood of dead animals.
During the Shakespearean Era, playwrites and actors a like would use many different forms of special effects. For example:
-Glitter used for witchcraft
- Costume changes on stage
- Loud noises using absurd objects (such as trashcans, washboards, etc)
- temporary curtains to fall on stage for distraction
- mirrors to create reflections
- stilts to enlarge a characters body length
- actors coming down from the ceiling on trapezes
- actors coming up from under the stage through a trapdoor
- actual cannon fire (doing this burned down the Globe in 1613)
- trained animals (the bear in The Winter's Tale is thought to have been a real bear)
They could lower people from the roof (the god Jupiter does this in Cymbeline), or have them go under the stage (the ghost in Hamlet does this), or have them go through a hole in the stage (probably how they did graves in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet). They fired off real cannons (this is how they set the original Globe on fire).
Flower petals and animal organs and animal blood,ropes,fireworksand music
There was not much concern for stage effect in the plays of Shakespeare and his company. There was use of curtains though that made the appearance of more doors and entrances.
there were many trapdoor and pulley systems and the occasional use of animal guts in more violent plays
Well, they rather famously had actual cannons to simulate cannon fire. This is because the wadding from one of the cannons actually set the theatre on fire on June 29, 1613.
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Canons were included in the Globe Theatre Special Effects. The cannon was situated inside the roof, in the attic above the "Heavens".
Many trap doors and pulley systems were at use but nothing special in our day, but what made it impressive was how it was used back then.
the Globe Theatre.
The Globe Theatre was used for acting out and making people watch plays.
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Canons were included in the Globe Theatre Special Effects. The cannon was situated inside the roof, in the attic above the "Heavens".
Canons were included in the Globe Theatre Special Effects. The cannon was situated inside the roof, in the attic above the "Heavens".
Many trap doors and pulley systems were at use but nothing special in our day, but what made it impressive was how it was used back then.
For special entrences.
the Globe Theatre.
The old Globe theatre was rebuilt in the year 1614. it burned down because of a cannon blast used for special effects, which shot burning wadding onto the thatched roof. -Cam M.-
The Globe Theatre was used for acting out and making people watch plays.
The Globe Theatre
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the globe theatre burnt down because of a stage cannon that was used as a prop accidentlly exploded.