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1
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Henry VIII’s relationship with theatre

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Restricted it because of it’s close connection with Roman Catholicism

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1560s

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Non-religious theatre in courtyards and inns

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3
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The Red Lion

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John Brayne

Built in Whitechapel in 1567

40’ x 30’ stage - 5’ above audience

Outside the city walls - farmland

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4
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The Theatre

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1576

With Dr. John Dee
Coliseum-like style

Shoreditch

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The Curtain

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1577

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James Burbage

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Originally a carpenter
Turned actor and theatrical entrepreneur

1572- he asked Robert Dudley for protection and patronage

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The Earl of Leicester’s Men

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1574

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Reputation

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Poor
Encouraged crime and Disorder
Frivolous

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December 1574

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Council of all London banned plays within the city walls

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1596

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All theatres within city limits and had to close and move south of the Thames

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Theatres closed for plague

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1592-> 94
1603
1608

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12
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Giles Allen

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Puritan land owner forced Burbage to dismantle ‘The Theatre’

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13
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The Globe built

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In 1599

In Bankside, Southwark

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Globe owned by

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Burbage brothers, Thomas Pope, John Hemings, Augustine Phillips and William Shakespeare

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1st play at the globe

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Julius Caesar

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Hirelings

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Payed a weekly wage

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Sharers

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Contributed money to the company

Received a share of the profits

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Apprentices

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Men who played womens’ roles - paid very little

19
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Describe companies of young boy actors

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Attached to churches and cathedrals
Refined plays
Higher entrance fee
Playhouses held 1000 people

20
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St. Paul’s boys

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1575-> 1590

21
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Blackfriars Theatre

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Used by Chapel Children

1576 -> 1583

22
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Queen’s Men

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  • set up by Sir Francis Walsingham in 1583

* 12 of the finest actors, some stolen from Dudders

23
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The Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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  • patronage of Henry Carey and Lord Hunsdon

* 1594 -> William Shakespeare becomes principal playwright, writing 2 plays annually

24
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Patronage

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  • Dudders was a patron
  • convinced Protestants that play-going was acceptable
  • gained favours from Queenie + good reputation
25
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Act of Parliament in 1572

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All theatre companies had to have a patron

26
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Economic accessibility

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  • 2000 people
  • groundlings = 1 penny
  • undercover galleries = 2 pennies
  • box = sixpence
  • commercial city
  • mercantile audience
  • Reneissance -> rise in literacy rates
27
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Playwrights

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Ben Johnson
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare

28
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Christopher Marlowe

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Questioning the very existence of God

29
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William Shakespeare

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Poetic and philosophical mediations
Intellectually rigorous, yet pleased all
Difficult language, more complex characters
Provocative and experimental plays (Troilus and Cressida)

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