In an Elizabethan playhouse there was a large roof over the stage. It was possible to lower actors through the roof to represent gods and so on. This roof was called "the heavens" and was painted to look like a sky.
It means it is the greatest of heavens; Heaven of heavens, Oh, that was the best drink of my life! It was the drink of drinks! would be a similar quote.
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".
The "sientific" name for the heavens would be... that there is no heavens.
Shakespeare's plays were shown at his theatre, called the Globe. It is situated in London Borough, in southwark. It got burnt down once, so they rebuilt it.
there are seven heavens on the seventh there are the prophets, companions of them etc.
"Making stars to line the heavens" is not a quotation from Romeo and Juliet. Perhaps you are thinking of: "Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. "
One of the great advantage of the concept of writing, developed about 5000 years ago, is that you can still read and use the words of someone who is dead. Thus you can still read Jane Austen's novels long after Jane has died. Shakespeare does not have to be alive for you to perform his plays because they were written down.Shakespeare's plays were not performed in order to make Shakespeare happy. People did not say in 1616, "Thank heavens Shakespeare is dead so we don't have to perform his plays any more." On the contrary, they performed and continue to perform Shakespeare's plays because they are the best plays ever written in the English language. Shakespeare's death did not change that.
Shakespeare was a part owner in two theatres, the Globe, which was a large Theatre open to the elements, and the Blackfriars which was a small indoor theatre. The Blackfriars was called that after the district in London where it was situated. Nobody knows where they got the name The Globe; it could have been Shakespeare's invention or that of one of his partners.
It's in Germany on the River Elbe. The University was founded in 1502 and was famously where Martin Luther studied and where he began the Protestant Reformation, or the Lutheran end of it anyway.
Heavens - band - was created in 2006.
Heavens - band - ended in 2008.