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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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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."
What happened in 1613 at the globe during a performance of Henry VIII?
In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, a shot cannon ball destroyed the theatre.
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?
How was the city informed that there was going to be a play in globe theatre?
they would fire a cannon either 1 hour or 30 minutes before the start of the play. im not exactly sure which one.
What was the name of the london suburb in which they built the globe theatre?
The original Globe theatre was build in the London Borough of Southwark. The new Shakespeare's Globe is built about 230 metres away from the site of the original.
Was the globe theatre the first theatre?
No it wasn't. The ancient Greeks and Romans built very effective outdoor theatres many of which are in use today, 1500 years and more before the Globe was built in 1599. But the Globe was not even the oldest theatre in Britain which was intended as a theatre not just an innyard. The Theatre in Shoreditch, built 1576, was the first. Newington Butts, The Curtain, The Rose, The Swan and the Blackfriars all were built before The Globe.
A globe is a three-dimensional representation of the Earth's surface (globes can also represent other planets or moons).
What kind of people stood in front of the stage at the globe theatre?
The kind of people for whom it was worth standing through a play to save a penny i.e. either very cheap or poor.
