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Which theater was built in England for Shakespeare's group of actors?
The Globe Theatre was not only designed by actors and intended for actors but was also paid for by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company.
What had the kings men got to do with Shakespeare?
Shakespeare was a member of the King's Men. They were an acting company and he was one of the actors. He was actually a charter member back when they were called the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Why were adolescent boys included in Shakespeare's acting company?
At the time, it was considered unseemly for women to be actors. The female roles were played by young men.
How were Shakespeare's actors chosen?
All acting companies in Shakespeare's day had a permanent roster of players. Shakespeare did not write a play and then choose the actors for it; he had the actors and wrote the play for them. It is possible to see the difference between the parts written for Will Kempe when he was the company funnyman and the parts written for Robert Armin when he replaced Kempe.
Who played Shakespeare's roles and why?
Actors played all of Shakespeare's roles, because they were trained in acting.
Who did shakespeare change his companies name in honor of?
Elizabethan acting companies took the names of their patrons--by law, no acting company could exist unless it was sponsored by a noble or royal patron. This was automatic; neither Shakespeare nor anyone else could change the name of the company. The name of the company did not "honor" anyone, it showed who was giving the actors legal protection.
What was the name of Shakespeare second acting group?
We are not exactly sure which acting company Shakespeare started his career with: Queen Elizabeth's Men, Lord Strange's Men, Suffolk's Men, Pembroke's Men or Derby's Men have all been mentioned as possible acting companies Shakespeare worked for before 1594. He may have worked for all of them for all we know. But what we do know is that in 1594 Shakespeare was made a partner in a new company made up mostly of actors from Lord Strange's men, and it is this company which Shakespeare worked with for the next twenty years or so, although the personnel and even the name of the company changed from time to time. It is known usually as the Lord Chamberlain's Men or the King's Men, but it was throughout the same company. So it is impossible to say which acting group was Shakespeare's second, but it is certain that the Chamberlain's/King's Men was his last.
Where did shakespeare find a women to act in his plays?
Shakespeare did not find any actors to act in his plays, male or female. The acting company consisted of a group of actors who always took all the parts in the plays. Shakespeare wrote the plays for the actors not the other way around. So, when he was writing Macbeth, he put in the comic Porter so there would be a part for Robert Armin. He didn't have to find Armin to play the part of the Porter--he was already a part of the company. Even if there were small parts which members of the company could not play, it was not Shakespeare's job to hire on extra actors. That was Cuthbert Burbage's job (he was the company manager). It was against the law for females to actually appear on stage (Mary Frith was one who did, but she got punished for it), but there were teenaged boys in the company who were studying acting as apprentices and they played all the girls' parts. Adult male actors played older women.
Who paid William Shakespeare per work?
Those playwrights who were not also actors were paid per work by the acting companies that put their plays on. But at least after 1594, Shakespeare did not sell his plays in this way. Instead, his own acting company put them on and he had a share in the profits. In this way, Shakespeare was able to earn a decent living, unlike most playwrights of the time.
What was the new name for the actors in the group in Shakespeare?
The actors, new and old, in Shakespeare's company were called players. As were all other actors at the time.
How were the names of William Shakespeare's two acting companies chosen?
Just to make it clear, Shakespeare was associated with only one acting company for almost all of his career. It was the only company he was actually a partner in. But it did have two names. The reason for this is that the names for acting companies in Shakespeare's day were never chosen by anyone. It's not like nowadays where if you start an acting company you can call it anything you want. In those days the name of your company was the name of your patron. Period. If you changed patron, or if the patron changed his name or his job, your company's name would change, and you had nothing to say about it. If a group of actors in Shakespeare's day tried to say "We're the Happy Day Players", they would get a visit from the police who would say "Happy Day Players, eh? That means you have no patron" and throw them all in jail.
What theatre did shakespeare co-own that later became the kings men?
There seems to be some confusion here. A theatre is a building where plays are performed. Shakespeare bought a share in one such theatre in 1599 and in a second one in 1608. As a part-owner, he got a tenth of any rentals paid to these theatres by any acting companies that played there.The thing was that the owners of the theatres all belonged to the same acting company, although not everyone in the acting company had shares in the theatre building. And this acting company was in fact the best customer of the two theatres. But the acting company had been formed five years before Shakespeare had an interest in any theatres, and Shakespeare was a charter member of the acting company when it formed as The Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. The same group reformed as The King's Men in 1603. To summarize:Theatre=building. Shakespeare owned a share in two (Globe and Blackfriars); there were about 7 sharers who had unequal shares (Richard and Cuthbert Burbage owned 25% each)Theatre or Acting Company=group of actors. Shakespeare owned a share in one, called The Lord Chamberlain's Men 1594-1603 and The King's Men after 1603; there were about 12 sharers each with an equal share.
