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Since performances in the public theatres took place when the light was right, which was about 3 pm, the audience needed to be told that it was really dawn, or midnight, or just after supper. The stage looked the same in any case--you couldn't get any clues from the stage. The only way a playwright could communicate that part of the setting would be in the dialogue.
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∙ 12y agoHe would have someone walk on stage and say, "Now is the very witching hour of night" or something to that effect. Shakespeare's audiences were invited to use their imaginations to set the scene by the words of the play. The best example is in the Prologue to Henry V:
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass
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∙ 11y agoSome one says "Hey, its night time!" and then you know it's night time unless you are deaf, in which case your experience of the play would be seriously impaired.
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∙ 6y agoThe Actors tell you. They say things like "The night is dark" or "night"s candles are all out."
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What did Shakespeare's plays do for the public?
Entertained them. Plays were the television of their day.
Where were plays held in Shakespeare's day?
At Theatres. Shakespeare's plays were performed at The Globe, The Theatre, The Curtain and probably The Rose.
What made William shakespeare plays stand out the others?
William Shakespeare's writing is not so much unique as it is superior. There were many other playwrights writing plays at that time in a similar style, and many of them are very good indeed but none of them is quite as good as Shakespeare. Shakespeare also wrote poetry using forms which were quite common in his day, but they are better than most of the other poetry being written at the time (Spenser and Marlowe wrote some equally effective verse.)
What were the 3 plays performed at the globe theatre?
Hundreds of different plays were performed at the Globe. In Shakespeare's day there were often more than three different plays put on in a week. It's sometimes difficult to remember that Shakespeare was only one of a large number of playwrights writing for the English stage at that time.
How many plays did Shakespeare make?
We only know for sure the names of two plays in which Shakespeare played as an actor: Sejanus and Every Man in His Humour, both by Ben Jonson. However, we can be pretty confident that he played in many many more, including most if not all of the ones he wrote himself.
What times were the Shakespeare plays?
Do you mean: 1) When were Shakespeare's plays written? 2) When were Shakespeare's plays first performed? 3) What time of day were performances when Shakespeare was alive? 4) What time of day does the action of the plays take place? 5) What is the historical setting of Shakespeare's plays? 6) What is the name of the era Shakespeare lived in? 7) Did the actors in Shakespeare's plays have a good time? Your question might be any of the above. Please specify and pose the question in less ambiguous wording.
When did William Shakespeare's plays played like time of the day?
around 2 in the afternoon
What did Shakespeare's plays do for the public?
Entertained them. Plays were the television of their day.
William Shakespeare was married on this day in 1582 What is a line from one of his plays?
William Shakespeare was married on this day in 1582. What is NOT a line from one of his plays?
Where were plays held in Shakespeare's day?
At Theatres. Shakespeare's plays were performed at The Globe, The Theatre, The Curtain and probably The Rose.
How William Shakespeare began to plot novells?
He did not. William Shakespeare did not write novels. They were an unknown form in his day. Shakespeare wrote plays which is a totally different literary form. The plots for his plays were almost all taken from stories or history books or biographies he had read or plays by other people which he had seen. He made changes in these plots but he started out with a story he got from somewhere else.
Shakespeare was a member of what writing group?
They didn't have "writing groups" in Shakespeare's day. He wrote on his own and sometimes he co-wrote things with another playwright.
How many novel did Shakespeare wrote?
Zero. Shakespeare did not write novels--as a literary form they were almost unheard of in his day.
What time period did William Shakespeare complete his work?
from what i know he was still working on plays almost up till the day he died .
What made William shakespeare plays stand out the others?
William Shakespeare's writing is not so much unique as it is superior. There were many other playwrights writing plays at that time in a similar style, and many of them are very good indeed but none of them is quite as good as Shakespeare. Shakespeare also wrote poetry using forms which were quite common in his day, but they are better than most of the other poetry being written at the time (Spenser and Marlowe wrote some equally effective verse.)
What day do you honour William shakespeare?
I honour William Shakespeare on April 23rd, the date of his death and possibly also his birth, by cooking special meals using recipes from Shakespeare's day, by reciting his poetry and lines from his plays, and perhaps by watching a film of one of his plays.
What were the 3 plays performed at the globe theatre?
Hundreds of different plays were performed at the Globe. In Shakespeare's day there were often more than three different plays put on in a week. It's sometimes difficult to remember that Shakespeare was only one of a large number of playwrights writing for the English stage at that time.
