History essay example: Elizabethan theatres
elizabethan theatres
the rich and the posh people pay more at theartres for the best seats and the poor have to stand up on squashed down earth.
There was four majour theartres in the elizabethan times they were the rose ,the swan and the hope.There was two kind of theatres a
indoor and out door theartre, the outdoor one was for the public,for the floor there was a squashed earth (for the poor who couldnt afford the seats ) and there was three floors of balconys for the rich .they had many problems for the theartres as they didnt have roofs as such as the rain the heating as it didnt warm most people warm,the actors vioce it didnt echo so some people couldnt hear very well.In the theartres there was a trap door,lifting gear,a balcony for a room possibly and two doors mostly for easy exits.The plays would roughly open at 2pm so people could have thier dinne rthen got to watch the play.
theglobe
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is a storied place. The original Globe was built circa 1598 in London’s Bankside district. It was one of four major theatres in the area—the other three being the Swan, the Rose, and the Hope.the original globe was opended in 1599
In 1613, the original Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Responsibility has been placed on a cannon shot during a performance of Henry VIII that ignited the thatched roof of the gallery. The new Globe continued operating as a theatre until 1642, when it was closed down by the Puritans .
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