Elizabethan Theatre Analysis

04/20/17 Shakespeare did write his plays and sonnets. Shakespeare did write his own plays and sonnets. He wrote many plays that are popular today. Shakespeare has always wrote his own plays and there is proof. Shakespeare always loved the theatre, even when he was little.

1. What was the relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre during the Middle Ages? The relationship during the Catholic Church and theatre during the Middle Ages was surprisingly good despite its rocky past because the church was "the center of artistic and educational activities" (Wilson 106). One thing that helped to bridge the gap between the church and theatre was the development of liturgical theatre, which developed due to the strong theatrical elements located in Roman Catholic rituals. Theatrical elements were found in "the mass and the hours, the vestments worn by the clergy, the church space, the musical accompaniment, and the annual symbolic events (such as the burial of the cross on Good Friday

As an actress and stagehand for the New York Civic Theatre, I am committed to a career in the entertainment business. Over the past twelve years, I have worked on every aspect of set design and production, mastering the endless technical challenges that live theatre presents. Consequently, I am equally comfortable constructing sets, sewing costumes, stringing lights and running lines with famous actors. Even after all these years, I have not lost my passion for the business. I still get goose bumps on opening night when I watch the combined energy of the production company come together for the first time in front of a live audience.

Through the years of 1558 and 1603, Elizabeth I was the queen of England. This time was known as the Elizabethan era. The queen loved music and dance so much, that both were an integral part of the Elizabethan’s lifestyle. The Elizabethan era had many different types of music and dance. There were different aspects of music and dance and all often reflected the Elizabethan’s way of life.

They were granted a Royal Patent and changed their name to the King's Men, in honour of James. It was indeed lucky for the King's Men that James held them in such high regard, for in 1603 England saw its worst outbreak of the plague in decades, and all the theatres had to be closed. Shakespeare and his troupe were

It happened so much that theatre building became its own job. Many new kinds of theatres were being built. Some examples of new types of theatres were horseshoe theatres, which had balconies in the horseshoe shape and music halls, where the audience could come and go freely and weren 't restricted to certain showtimes. At this time the theatre was opened up to the lower classes. It was not opened to the very lowest class but to the middle class.

Greek tragedies and comedies would always be performed in outdoor theaters. Early Greek theaters were probably little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or hero. From the late 6th century BC to the 3rd centuries BC there was a gradual progression towards more elaborate theater structures, but the basic layout of the Greek theater remained the

Everyday people struggle with an illness. Imagine being in an unsanitary environment in the Elizabethan era not getting the help from doctors that people get today. In the Elizabethan era the people didn’t have the right medicines to be able to cure their illnesses. In today people have way better medicines and doctors to be able to help cure illnesses. The plague was a disease that spread throughout Europe.

This field includes hotels, restaurants, airlines, and travel agencies (Fisk, pg. 13). Next is the services theater framework. The services theater framework “involves the same elements as a stage production: actors, audience, setting, front stage, backstage, and a performance” (Fisk, pg. 26). These are some of the definitions that are important to know throughout this paper.

“William Shakespeare’s Impact on Theater” says that “Theater, in particular, has experienced many changes due to his influence,” and without any major influence like Shakespeare to guide the changes of theater, it would be extremely different (Octane 1). Shakespeare introduced many new elements to theater because of how his writing was unique in his time period. Despite this, his writing appealed to many different audiences. For instance, Octane says that “The way in which Shakespeare’s plots move forward has helped define modern play-writing. Similarly, Shakespeare’s complex characterizations have brought forth a new type of storytelling in which characters’ choices drive plots forward” and “His plays were often imbued with universal truths of human existence, rather than acting as mirrors of the privileged life.

Although music has been part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, by the 18th century, two forms of musical theatre were popular in Britain: ballad operas (like John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’, 1728) and comic operas (like Balde’s ‘The Bohemian Girl’, 1845). Other musical theatre forms developed by the 19th century, such as music hall, melodrama, burlesque and vaudeville. This became popular because most London theatres were licensed only as music halls and couldn’t perform plays without music. The comic opera is argued to be the earliest form of the musical theatre we know today.

To be of significance though is how he developed in the professional choices he made forcing one to conclude that he might have had a good and effective early grooming. Having said all this, Shakespeare became one of the greatest play writers of all time and a history maker field of thought expressed through art. If anything, Shakespeare having been born at the time of renaissance and precisely when England was in cultural transition, he became a good and one of the most effective conduits of positive reflection in a society he beleaguered by cultural confusion. At the centre of his art was a vocal and lasting message beckoning all at sundry to accept the period as the winds of change all across Europe, to consider the influence at play and make personally and socially sound decision that will affect even generation to come.

In the twenty-first century, the plays of William Shakespeare may at first appear dated and irrelevant: they use archaic language, are set in the age of Kings and Queens, and the Kingdom of England. However, it would be plainly mistaken to construe that Shakespeare’s works do not still remain integral to a twenty-first century society. Shakespeare’s plays gave the words and expressions one uses every day, revolutionized the art of theater as it was known, and forewarned about issues that would unknowingly still apply centuries later. Therefore, Shakespeare has had a profound effect on our lives by enriching our language and culture, as well as providing ideas that would still apply five centuries later, and it would thus behoove us to learn from his works and life.

Simultaneously, the public theaters of the Elizabethan era had an influence similar in magnitude upon performance art. The enormous popularity of London's theaters had obliterated, to a certain degree, the relevance of medieval forms of performance, such as the fair and the carnival shows, and even casted a shadow on the royal masque. In this

Although London is ranked the second largest city in the European Union area, it is not particularly distinguished by a predominant architectural style or any striking monuments or dramatic public buildings that so many of its neighboring cities such as Paris or Rome boast. In 1766, John Gwynn described London as being “inconvenient, inelegant, and without the least pretension to magnificence or grandeur …” (Gwynn, 45). Although the architecture since the time of John Gwynn may not satisfy his desire for magnificence or grandeur, many parts of London have grown to exhibit strong, distinguished urban qualities. This is mainly due to the development of the ‘Great Estates’ and the influences of their landowners.