The+Stage


 * **__//The Globe...//__**


 * Open in the center.
 * No performances happened in winter or during bad weather.
 * The performances were performed during the day because there was no lighting other wise.
 * People had to pay 1d (one penny) to enter.
 * Part of the audience would be standing.
 * The audience came from all social classes.
 * the stage projected into the audience.
 * The auditorium was circular or polygonal is shape.
 * it could hold 2500-3000 spectators.


 * __//The Black friars//...__**


 * An indoor theater; completely enclosed.
 * Their were performances all year round.
 * People had to pay 6d (six penny's) to enter.
 * The whole audience would be sitting.
 * The audience tended to be Elizabethan courtiers and professional people.
 * the stage was at one end of the room.
 * Lighting was by torches hung in brackets along the walls, by candelabra, lantern and crude footlights along the edge of the stage.

.....I showed two auditoriums to you so that you could get the difference/better idea between two of the auditoriums in that age...

by Tim... (this was my very first wiki post yay!!!!).

__//**Elizabethan music...**//__
Elizabethan music had developed into sophisticated and many forms, The introduction of the theater during the Elizabethan era was enhanced as the plays were accompanied by music. Elizabethan music played in the theater therefore needed to be capable of communicating many different moods reflecting the plots of the plays and heightening the emotion. The different types of Elizabethan music were:

Elizabethan Church music.. []

Elizabethan Court Music.. []

Elizabethan Street Music..

Elizabethan Town Music.. []

Elizabethan Theater Music.. []

by Tim...

Hellooo Its Jen.

I couldnt figure out how to make my own pagey thingie so Im just gonna do my stuff in this one cuz it's close enough =) =***PHYSICALITY OF THE STYLE* ﻿ **=
 * **Boys were used for womens parts**
 * **Acting was pure & simple**
 * **Reactions on stage had to be immediate & more complicated**
 * **Actors needed skill, dedication, pride & perfection**
 * **During fight scenes the actors used jagged, sharp movements**
 * **Nowadays people think that Shakespearian acting was too over acted**
 * **The style was all about emphasizing & exaggerating emotion & actions**
 * **It was all very melodramatic**
 * **A bit like theater today**
 * **It was all about involving, connecting & communicating with the audience, which is easier on stage than in a film**
 * **Actors had to please the audience or fruit would get thrown at them**

//__**Theatre in Elizabethan times**__// Public performanaces generally took place in the afternoon, beginning about 3 o'clock and lasting perhaps two hours. Candles were used when daylight began to fade. The beginning of the play wan announced by the hoisting of the flag and the blowing of a trumpet. There were playbills, those for tragedy being printed in red. Often after a serious piece a short farce was also given; and at the close of the play the actors, on their knees, recited an address to the King or Queen. The price of the entrance varied with the theatre, the play, and the actors; but it was roughly a penny to a sixpence for the pit, up to half a crown for a box. A three legged stool on the stage at first cost sixpence extra; but this price was later doubled.

In 1578 six companies were granted permission by special order of the Queen to perform plays. Such as Children of the Capel Royal and Children of St Pauls.

The servants of the Lord Chamberlain, Chamberlain's Men were the most important company of players in Elizabethean England. Between 1564 and 1567 this acting troupe was initially known as Hunsdon's Men, whose patron was Henry Carey, first Lord Hunsdon. Hunsdon took office as Lord Chamberlain in 1585, and another company (The Lord Chamberlain's Men) under his patronage is traceable to 1590. After their patron's death in 1596 the Company came under the protection of his son, George Carey, (second Lord Hunsdon). Once more it was known as Hunsdon's Men, until their new patron himself took office as Lord Chamberlain in 1597. It was again known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men, until accession of James I in March 1603, when, by letters patent, it was taken under royal patronage and henceforth known as the King's Man.

The servants of Lords Warwick, Leicester, the Earl of Leicester's Men were the earliest organised Elizabethan acting company. Formed in 1572 from members of the Earl of Leicester's household, the troupe performed at court the following year. The Earl of Leicester was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth and the company was granted a license by royal patent. In 1576 James Burbage, a member of the troupe, built The Theatre to stage their productions. With the death of the Earl of Leicester in 1588, the troupe merged with Lord Strange's Men.

Lord Strange's Men. The troupe of Lord Strange was made up from members of the household of Lord Strange, they toured the provinces before appearing at court in 1582. From 1588 to 1594 they were associated with the Admiral's Men. The troupe performed at The Theatre and at the Rose Theatre, where they are believed to have staged several of Shakespeare's plays. Upon the death of Lord Strange in 1594, the group left London to perform in the provinces. Some members, however, joined the Chamberlain's Men.

by Gabriel