Saturday, December 5, 2009

Does any one know anything about Shakespear's Theatre?

What shape was it?



What happened if it rained during or on the day of the performance?



What sort of set was used?



Did they have any music? of what sort? Played by whom? and where?



What costumes did they wear and were did they get it from?



Did they use Female actresses?



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Octagonal. (8 sides)



Performances usually went on rain or shine. In the event of really bad weather, they were postponed.



Sets were pretty simple, built of wood and fabric, and only minimal changes were made between scenes.



Many of the players were musicians. Music was sometimes used during a play. After most plays there was usually a song and dance number, which is rarely performed now.



The costumes were generally made by the performers, or bought secondhand. This was often one of the major expenses for a theater.



Females were prohibited from acting. Young men usually played female roles.



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They did not use any female actors because it was prohibited. They used young boys to play woman. There was a lot of symbolism in their language including words like melancholy which meant that the person could be in love because he was thinking of his love. Certain flowers had certain meanings. There was such a thing as the Vicissitudes of Human Affairs which were every day occurrences in human life.
Just a note on about the suggestion The Globe Theatre was octagonal, that isn't quite true. In fact, nobody knows how many sides it in fact had. suggestions have ranged between six to twenty-five. In a recent Doctor Who episode they decided to make it have 14 sides to fit their purposes.
It was built by two brothers, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, who inherited its predecessor, The Theatre, from their father, James. The latter theatre had closed, in 1597, and the owner of the land on which it stood threatened to pull the building down once the lease expired. The Burbages and their associates anticipated the threat and dismantled The Theatre and carried the materials to Southwark. They reassembled the timbers from the old theatre, calling the new building, which was probably completed by the autumn of 1599, the Globe Theatre.



Information about the physical arrangement of the Globe is largely a matter of conjecture. It is thought to have been cylindrical in shape, with a thatched gallery roof. It is known that the Fortune Theatre--built in 1600 for a rival company, the Admiral's Men--was modeled on the Globe.



In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the thatch of the Globe was accidentally set alight by a cannon, set off to mark the king's entrance onstage in a scene at Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The entire theatre was destroyed within the hour. By June 1614 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape. It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for tenement dwellings.



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