What are the traditions of Elizabethan theatre?

Answer 1

Most notable for the differences from current theatre, Elizabethan theatre nevertheless shares with the modern theatre a reliance on patrons, an embracing or rebellion against formulaic approaches to scripts - sometimes derived from other cultures, the idea of artist as celebrity, travelling plays, costumes and buildings as modes of spectacle, and the idea of a repertory company.

Answer 2

Like all theatres, it had a stage and places for the audience. The stages, like most modern stages, were thrust stages with audiences on three sides, as opposed to proscenium stages with audiences on one side only. In some Elizabethan theatres, but not all, there was a large area for standees (groundlings). The back of the stage generally had a balcony to allow for multi-level stagings, and there was also usually a "concealment space" in the back of the stage to reveal things like Hermione's statue in The Winter's Tale. Like most stages there was a trapdoor and the ability to drop things from above (as Jupiter is dropped from the ceiling in Cymbeline)

Answer 3

The public plays were performed at 2:00 in the afternoon in public theaters whose roofs were open to the skies to catch the sunlight. The plays were performed by all-male companies under the protection of a noble. The companies performed a vast repertoire of plays, a different play every day, rotating approximately every three weeks. The plays were performed Mondays through Saturdays except for Lent, Advent, and when the playhouses were closed on account of plague. The companies performed around thirty-six weeks out of the year until 1603, when they increased their performances by moving into private playhouses during the winter months when the public playhouses were closed. They also performed at court and in private residences for command performances, usually over the holidays. The actors learned their lines quickly and rehearsed in the mornings before going on in the afternoons. There were five or six active playing companies in London at any one time.

Answer 4

They were exactly the same but they used flying pigs in elizabethan ones

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Reformation had an enormous impact.

The printing press made written works widely available.