What was the theatre like when shakespeare was writing?

Answer 1

Shakespeare worked in a great number of theatres and owned a small piece of two of them, so there was no theatre called "Shakespeare's Theatre." If you were able to time travel back to 1605 and asked someone where to find Shakespeare's Theatre, they would look at you as if you were mad.

There were two kinds of theatre back then: indoor and outdoor. The outdoor ones had a stage thrust out into a courtyard which was surrounded on all sides by galleries where people could sit and watch. At the back of the stage was a wall with a balcony through which the actors could enter and exit, and behind which were the tiring rooms (dressing rooms) and storage. There was a roof over the stage and the galleries but not over the courtyard where the poorest people could stand and watch the play. The names of some of the theatres built to this plan were the Theatre, the Curtain, The Rose, The Swan, The Hope, Newington Butts, The Globe, The Fortune, The Red Bull. Shakespeare performed, we believe, in the Theatre, Curtain, Rose, Newington Butts and the Globe, which was one of the theatres he had a share in. These theatres were round except for The Fortune which was square.

The indoor theatres also had galleries surrounding the stage, but there was seating on the floor, and the whole thing was enclosed with a roof over it. Since sunlight could not get to the stage, the stage was lit with candlelight. In the outdoor theatres, they would perform without a break for three hours, but in the indoor ones they had to stop from time to time to trim or replace candles.

St. Paul's, the Blackfriars, and the Cockpit were indoor theatres. Shakespeare owned part of the Blackfriars.

Answer 2

---- The modern-day Globe Theatre in London looks like Shakespeare's Globe from the outside, and like the Swan theatre (a different London theatre) on the inside.

The inside of the modern Globe is copied from the Swan, because there are no drawings of the inside of the Globe - we don't know what it looked like.

Answer 3

The Chamberlain's Men (who changed their name to the King's Men after James I took the throne in 1603), performed most of their plays on the multi-leveled spaces of the Globe Theater. Many of us are familiar with a different kind of theater altogether; the "modern" stage consists of a single flat playing surface separated from the audience by a proscenium arch, artificially lighted, furnished with sets and props and peopled by actors whose costumes, gestures and speech suggest a world that corresponds closely with our own. Shakespeare's stage also held, as Hamlet put it, a mirror up to nature, but it did not do so by the same means, and its reflection tended to be less realistically detailed. Perhaps the greatest difference is that what contemporary plays often accomplish through sets, props and costumes, Shakespeare gave his audiences almost entirely through language.

Although this description of Elizabethan stages is accurate enough, the "modern stage" described is actually most typical of late-nineteenth and early twentieth century theatre. Since then, many productions use thrust stages or stages in the round, and sets which are suggestive rather than realistic. Acting styles can be more varied. In many ways, theatre is more similar to Elizabethan theatre now than it was a hundred years ago.

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