Renaissance+Theatre

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 The renaissance plays performed at the festival originated during the Middle Ages with a Latin dialogue spoken in the church. * They were morality plays started by the politically powerful church to control the subjects. * These religious/political dialogues matured into structured plays that were eventually moved out of the churches and into the streets and private estates. > http://radar.ngcsu.edu/~bcorrigan/SWETNAM.JPG ||   __Elizabethan Theater__     Before 1576 there were no formal theaters in London. The Elizabethan age dawned shortly after the corronation of Queen Elizabeth I. http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MoreImages2/ArmadaPortraitOfQueenElizabeth11588.jpg || http://www.4theaters.com/The-globe.jpg || __Costumes and Set Design__ Since Elizabethan theatre did not make use of lavish scenery, instead leaving the stage largely bare with a few key props, the main visual appeal on stage was in the costumes. http://www.anniescostumes.com/tb90926-90927-90701.jpg  ||
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">__ Background Information __
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #ff2300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> Many of the early morality plays were shown before scenic constructions representing well known landmarks.    * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #ff2300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">     <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #ff2300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> An elaborate castle representing Heaven often sat opposite a dragon's mouth (complete with flames shooting out) which represented, Hell.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #ff2300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #ff2300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> Street plays wagons, often staged one scene on each wagon. The spectators stayed in one place and watched the various acts as the wagons pulled up in front of them.
 * The first one, called simply the Theatre, was built by James Burbage in 1576.
 * Many more theaters were built in short order--the Curtain, Rose, Swan, Hope, Fortune, and most important, the Globe.
 * The Globe Theatre opened in 1599. As these theaters mulitplied literature and the arts flourished. This theater was later dubbed the Elizabethan Theater.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">__Structure of //The Globe//__   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">* The Globe was a hexagon with an inner court about 55 feet across. A platform stage stretched halfway into this court.
 * The audience either stood in the open courtyard--the pit--or sat in one of three semicircular galleries. More than 1,500 people could crowd into the Globe.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">With so many stage spaces, the multiple scenes of Shakespeare's plays could be played through without interruption for scenery changes. The action moved from one playing space to another. In many ways it was the most flexible theater ever developed.
 * Costumes were often bright in color and visually entrancing. Costumes were expensive, however, so usually players wore contemporary clothing regardless of the time period of the play.
 * Actors were always boys and young men even for the female roles in the play because it was unsuitable for a woman to be seen in these costumes.
 * Occasionally, a lead character would wear a conventionalized version of more historically accurate garb, but secondary characters would nonetheless remain in contemporary clothing.