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Globe Theatre
Built in 1599 to house Shakespeare's many plays, the Globe overlooked the Thames river outside of London. The new Globe Theatre was built in 1997. It is considered a faithful replica. Shakespearean plays may still be seen there today.
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Why was the globe theatre so popular?
It was the first theatre to be actually built by a group of actors and members of a theatre company, not by an entrepreneur hoping to find a renter. The Fortune Playhouse, built the next year, was the second.
What is a row of seats in a theatre called?
Some people think that the second word for seat is seat but it is actually penis
What scenes were performed in the alcove in the globe theatre?
Your question is a bit vague, but I am going to answer it as if you had asked "What kind of scenes were performed in the alcove at the back of the stage in theatres like the Globe Theatre?" The answer to that is twofold: they used the alcove, called a "concealment space", when they wanted to reveal or hide something which is still part of the action, and when they needed a particularly clunky stage prop. An example of the latter is the murder scene in Othello, where Desdemona is sleeping in her bed. Keeping that bed in the concealment space meant that it didn't get in the way during the rest of the play. Remember that in thrust stage theatres like those of the Elizabethans there were no wings to hide scenery or stage props in. An example of using the concealment space for a reveal is in The Tempest where Ferdinand and Miranda are suddenly revealed playing chess. This was accomplished by having them in the alcove. The reverse happens on two occasions in Hamlet, where spies are hiding "behind the arras". The King and Polonius merely have to step behind the curtain of the concealment space. They are not offstage; the audience knows they are there, but they are hidden.
What are facts about the globe theater?
Old globe theatre
1. Built in 1599
2. Was in Southwark in London on southbank of river thames
3. Was built in the style of the roman coliseum
4. Could hold up to 3000 people
5. There was a fire on June 29th 1613
1. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry the eighth. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. After The fire, the building was found quite a lot later and was fully rebuilt in 1998.
2. Many Londoners were strict Protestants - Puritans in fact, who hated the theatres. Many of the people they attracted and in 1596 London's authorities banned the public presentation of plays and all theatres within the city limits of London. All theaters located in the City were forced to move to the South side of the River Thames.
3. Color-coding was used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy, white a comedy and red a history.
4. Many of the boy actors died of poisoning due to the vast quantities of lead in their make-up.
5. The Puritans ended the Globe Theatre. In 1642 the Puritan Parliament issued an ordinance suppressing all stage plays. The Puritans demolish the Globe Theatre in 1644.
6. The site of the old Globe theatre was rediscovered in the 20th century and a reconstruction of a New Globe Theatre has been built near the spot.
What did William Shakespeare do in the theater?
Although we do not have complete records, we know that Shakespeare had many roles in the theatre. He was part owner of the Globe theatre and a member of the Lord Chamberlain's men and later the King's men. That meant that he fulfilled the role of producer in the modern sense. He also was an actor. He may have been involved in the direction of the plays. He was the company's main playwright until he brought in John Fletcher to co-write plays with him and to take over from him when he retired. We do not know what jobs he did while learning the theatrical trade, but likely he did a variety of menial jobs during this period.
Does a globe have distortions?
While many people will claim globes are not distorted, they often are. All spatial projection have an inherant range of distortion. However, a globe offers the possibality of no distortion because it is a sphere. Most manufacture do not make a globe that is true to the irregular sphere the earth.
What were the major differences between theater then and now?
It depends what you mean by 'before'. They're in colour, more immoral (sex scenes are now a lot more de rigeur), more use of computer effects. Older films tend to be reliant of the use of extras, filming some movies were extremely dangerous, particularly Ben Hur. The accents have also changed-the clipped accent has gone.
What type of audience who went to see the plays in Globe Theatre?
The audiences that went to shakespeares play ranged from poor people (peasants, commons) to the nobility, even as high as a monarch. The differences were that the common people were on the lowest level, with all the dirt and other foul smelling things. While the nobility sat on the higher levels away from the common people.
What are the advantages of live theatre?
Live theater gives the audience the opportunity to participate in making the art. Unlike other forms of entertainment, live theater is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Each performance is slightly different from any other. Not only is the audience entertained by the actors; the actors are influenced by the audience.
Read Theatre: The Lively Art,7th edition, by Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb, especially chapter 3.
In the globe theatre where did Queen Elizabeth sit?
Queen Elizabeth never set foot in the Globe Theatre, that was for lower class citizens. She dud, however have private plays and performances in her private chambers. Shakespeare performed for her 14 times.
Where did the audience sit to watch performances in an Elizabethan theater?
Theatres like the Globe and the Rose had a thrust stage with a ring of covered seats, a set of ground floor seats and one or two balconies. These contained wooden benches on which audience members could sit. Some particularly favoured members of the audience were allowed to sit on the stage in chairs. The "groundlings", who filled the space inside the ring of seats, did not sit at all but stood through the performance.
16th century globe theatre capacity?
roughly around 1500 people would fit in the globe theatre including the groundlings.
Why was the Globe theatre closed in 1642?
The Globe was only in use until 1613, when on June 29 a fire broke out at the Globe Theatre during the performance of King Henry VIII . The cannon that was used for special effects, such as heralding great entrances, was loaded with gunpowder and wadding, sent a piece of the smoldering wadding onto the roof. The thatched roof caught on fire and the Globe Theatre burned to the ground. There were apparently no casualties but there must have been some panic. (Pretty impressive for a facility holding 3000 people with only one exit) In 1614 the Globe Theatre was rebuilt.
In 1613, the original Globe Theatre burned to the ground when a cannon shot during a performance of Henry VIII ignited the thatched roof of the gallery. The company completed a new Globe on the foundations of its predecessor before Shakespeare's death. It continued operating until 1642, when the Puritans closed it down (and all the other theatres, as well as any place, for that matter, where people might be entertained). Puritans razed the building two years later in 1644 to build tenements upon the premises. The Globe would remain a ghost for the next 352 years.
Why did the theaters of England close down in 1642?
London theatres were closed in 1593 because of an outbreak of the plague. They re-opened in late 1594.The companies tried touring around the country but could not make it pay and had to disband.
Due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
What are the parts of a globe?
A globe is a sphere, it is usually a single part.
Parts of a globe consist of:
- Longitude
- Latitude
- North Pole
- South Pole
- Southern Hemisphere
- Northern Hemisphere
- Eastern Hemisphere
- Western Hemisphere
- Equator
- Prime Meridian
- Oceans
- Islands
When was the Globe Theater built?
The theater was built in the year 1559.
The globe was built in 1599 using an earlier theatre that they tore down and move it across the river and in on 29 June 1613 the globe theatre was burnt down because one of the cannons fired and shot a timber catching it on fire and burning down the whole theatre it was soon rebuilt on the same spot in June of 1614. The Globe theatre was originally built to house Shakespeare's plays and the actors who are also the share holders in 1642 the Globe Theatre was closed down by the puritans who frowned on any type of entertainment not just the Globe was shut down all of the theatres in London were now part of the original Globes frame was found and it suggests that the globe was octagonal. The globe had no roof over the center but the stands had a roof.
the year 1599
1599
What is the impact of deforestion on globe?
It's bad because our earth was fine until we started going crazy on the polluting and the deforestation! it's up to us to make a difference.. now. Not in a little bit. Now. "Oh the government will take care of it!", No. We need to do it now, before it's to late! Like I said, It's up to us. Not the government, us. Now. You can help by..
- Reduce
- Reuse
- Repair
- Recycle
- Carpool
- Switch your light bulbs with the swirly kind (I think it's called URL)
- Buy bulky items next time you go to the store
- try not to throw away allot of stuff
- don't litter
- Compost you extras
- And many many more!
If there's 'many many more', then why aren't we doing at lease one?
Like I said 1,000 times and I'll say it again, we can change the world. If we put our heart and soul to it, we CAN change the world. So please do! It will make the world a better place!
When and where was the Globe Theatre rebuilt?
The first reconstruction was on the same site in London, England as the original, and was completed in June 1614, a year after the original was destroyed by fire.
A modern reconstruction was officially opened, also in London, England, about 750 feet from the original site, in 1997.
Why were the playes played at 3 pm at the globe?
because it was the only time spaces were free to peform and it was for shakespears more grusome plays
How can you unfreeze a snow globe?
thaw it under the sink with hot water. then keep it in a bucket of hot water
Why was the Globe Theater called Globe Theater?
For it's shape--it looks like a globe without a top? No, ALL the theatres then looked like that. It's probably got to do with the idea that the actors could show you anything or anywhere in the world, so the theatre was like a mini-cosmos.
Or maybe they didn't put that much thought into it. Why was the Swan theatre called the Swan?
The motto on the sign of the Globe was the quote from Shakespeare, "All the Word's a Stage."
Do children go to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre?
Sure, children are welcome at most performances at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. They often have school tours there. You are aware that the name "Shakespeare's Globe theatre" can only refer to the theatre built in 1997 and can never refer to the one built in 1599, aren't you?
