Group2ElizabethanTheatre

Actors always had to make things look real, they had to commit to what there character was to make the scene real as possible to the audience that is watching. They used clay, cloths an anything else they could use to make the scene real. They had different stage positions for different emotions to go with a scene. They also had to make things with body emotion look real as well. And if there were music they had to song as well or dance to it to as if they were in that time period or in that scene of a play and stay in character and not be there self when there acting or it can ruin the elusion there trying to make.
 * ACTORS**

Like so say there out side they would dress up as if they were outside or they would make things to make it look as if they were outside and walking around and things. They would make scenery like build things like trees or sides of houses to make it look like there outside walking down the street or playing on a playground or seeing a movie or going into a movie Theater. Or there out side flying a kite or something, looking at the sky or the stars at night they would have o make things use lights and things to make it seem that time of day or even if there in or outside or who’s the main character you want the audience to look at with like a spot light.

To make the play look real also the characters will have to memorize a script of words so that there not holding a piece of paper and reading it cause if they did then it would also ruin the illusion there trying to make. When you see a person on stage acting there never reading off of a piece of paper to say there lines /script because if they did wouldn’t it be boring that you know there acting but if they didn’t have the paper you get trapped into the play and if becomes real to you because there not holding a piece of paper infront of them there saying there lines like they would talk to a normal person.

But there cloths they wear have to do with the time period there play is in rolled in. they must dress as there character would or there age of the character as well. They might have to wear a wig or some really old cloths like a dress or guys wear something like Robin hood had to wear things like that would make the scene become more real to a person that in watching. They might have to wear like makeup to show there age if there 15 or 50 years old. And if they didn’t do any of these things then why would people go see these plays if they could act it out there self if you didn’t need to dress up or ear funny things to make it look like a different person or animal for that fact. [e[[image:paste_image44.jpg]][[image:2797430560_a7cab98d7b.jpg]]


 * Playwrights**

John Lyly

He started with novels and hope one day to write plays. Lyly dreamed of becoming a part of that world as her master of revels, the administrator in charge of dramatic and musical presentations for the queen and her nobles. In 1580 published the second euphues book. Realized that gaining favor at court was dependent in large degree on knowing and exploiting the favors of high placed people. Took a job as a secretary to Edward de Vere, th erail of oxfored and son-in-law of lord Burleigh.Wrote two comic plays, campapspe and sapho and phao in 1583, the following year they were published. Elizabethans were use to comedy plays filled with foul language and having little in the way of structure and elegant phrases, lylys plays were a revelation. He eliminated profanity and other base humor and substituted, well-worded, witty passages that offered advice on romance and good manners and mocked those who pursued neither.

Will shakespear Documented evidence to prove that on march 3rd 1593 Hennery VI part 1 was produced by the acting trupe, lord stages men and the rose theatre. He wrote parts 1, 2 and 3 of Hennery VI part one between 1590 and 1592. Also he is believed to have acted in these plays. For William, being accepted as a writer would have been difficult. Playwrights were not seen and literary experts. A poet was highly acceptable and viewed a educated intellectuals. Playwrights were not. He had been an actor and that did not enhance his reputation as a poet. Elizabethan politics were really dangerous. And playwright’s found guilty of expressing seditious or heretical opinions, which were in opposition to state cold be tortured and sentenced to death for treason or even atheism. Catholics were seen as a threat. Shakespeare was most likely catholic. In his lifetime, William never claimed authorship of his plays during his lifetime. Shakespeare is referred to as a literary Genius and much of this praise is due to the wonderful word of his sort poems. In the entire western world he is the most widely read author. His quotes and poems are familiar to everyone.

• The theaters drew large crowds of playgoers. • The stage itself was usually a rectangular platform that extended into the middle of the auditorium. • It was often divided into a front and back portion by a curtain fung upon a rod or wire. • One or more trapdoors were cut in the center of the stage so an actor could disppear or leap etc. • A balcony overhanging the rear stage was considered part of the stage. Actors would pretend that it was a mountain top etc. • Scenery was not an important part on the Elizabethan stage. • Props was an important means of keeping an audience in touch with the setting of a play. • Every acting company owned several trunk loads of objects that provided realism and interest to what would otherwise be a bare stage. • Burbages theatre was the first of its kind. • The beginning of a new scene was marked by actors eciting and entering from two sided doors on either side of the stage, while a curtained opening in the center was used to bring props onstage. • A low railing was put around the edge of the stage to allow actos to judge their distance from the edge and also keep patrons who sat on the stage from tumbling off. • Supported by trestles the stage was raised five and a half to six feet above the yard.(globe) • At the back of this stage was a curtained "booth" or room where the players waited for their cues to enter.
 * Stage**s

. Theatre performances were held in the afternoon, because, of course, there was no artificial lighting.

Trapdoors were built in the floor of the stage (called Hell) and in the stage ceiling (the Heavens). Bladders filled with the blood of animals such as sheep or bulls were concealed beneath the actor's costumes which could be pierced by the points of daggers or swords used in stage fights, or just a thump to the chest could produce a gruesome death scene.

Fireworks were used to imitate the sounds of the battlefield. A metal sheet or a rolling cannonball were used for creating the sound of thunder.


 * History of Theaters**

- Home of several important companies of actors over the years including: Leicester’s Men, The Admiral’s Men and The Lord Chamberlain’s Men. - “The Theatre” was designed by James Burbage - When the lease expired, Richard and Cuthbert dismantled the playhouse and recycled the pieces to a new theater…and “The Globe” was made. - Original Globe survived until 1613, when it burnt down - Rebuilt on same foundation and reopened in 1614 - Famous amphitheaters consist of: The Globe, the Rose, the Bear Garden, the Swan, the Blackfriars, the Fortune and the Curtain - Many of some cities officials thought drama was immoral and a waste of time to be discouraged instead of tolerated - 2,500 to 3,000 people could attend a single performance - The largest and most distinguished is the Swan holds more than 3,000 people can fit - Elizabethan theaters offered two separate sections to have the audience more organized: The pit, which was an open area in front of the stage where the lower class stood, and the gallery, a three storied wooden structure where upper class sat in comfort - In 1648 the theatres and playhouses were demanded to be pulled down and all the players to be seized and whipped and anyone caught attending a play to be fined five shillings - After 1609 “The Globe” was only used in the summer months **
 * - Scholars believe that the first permanent public playhouse in London was “The Red Lion”