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Q: Why is a theatrical performance sometimes called plays?
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What did Queen Elizabeth do with Shakespeare's plays?

Sometimes she watched them (the Chamberlain's Men were sometimes called upon to present plays at court.). Mostly she ignored them. She was not Shakespeare's patron or the patron of the theatrical company he belonged to.


What is an oriental drama?

Oriental Drama consists of a large variety of theatrical performance traditions, such as plays and productions. It is also referred to as Oriental Theater.


What did shakespeare understand so well that makes his plays so well known?

Several things: The English language. Human nature. The structure of plays. Practical aspects of theatrical performance.


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The plays performed at the Festival of Dionysus represented a completely new performance genre called what?


What are theatrical stage trapdoors called?

It's called a 'grave trap.' They are usually 5' in height and allowed dramatic entrances during theatrical plays. The trap was also called 'Hell' and was taken from the term 'hell mouth'. Actors that were to make ghostly or horrific sounds often were hidden in the trap called 'Hell.'.


What were the plays called of Shakespeare?

They're generally called Shakespeare's plays. Sometimes they are called by the type of plays they are: histories, tragedies and comedies. That's how they are referred to in the First Folio, the first compendium of the plays.


The use of time in film is the same as the use of time in theatrical plays?

False.


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They represented a new genre called drama.


What kind of entertainment was performed at the Globe theatre?

Theatrical plays, for instance many of Shakespeare's.


What were the romance plays Shakespeare wrote?

The late plays Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline are sometimes called "Romances".


What types of plays were performed in The globe?

Theatrical ones like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.


Which William Shakespeare plays were performed in London?

All of them. London was the centre of the English theatrical scene and the location of all the major playhouses. The theatrical company to which Shakespeare belonged and for whom he wrote all his plays was permanently established at a London theatre (it was a different theatre at different times) and that is where the plays would have seen their premiere.