Lord chamberlains men. Led by Richard burbage. Basically built a theatre for his son. Was friends with William Shakespeare. Who wrote the plays.
Shalespeare: writers presenting ideas for a plot. Decide weather they liked it or not. Only had the Job as a writer. Didn't have a different job. He made money from writing plays. Created characters with certain actors in mind. Richard burbage led it all. He was a good actor and always had the leading role. As he got older. Shakespeare started writing focusing around older characters. So that's why we see this in Shakespeare's later writing. Each actor recieved a parchment with their dialogue on it. Not the full script. Rehearsals used to sort out details not in the scripts. Shakespeare's known for not having many stage directions. Actors worked out where they had to go/what they had to say. 1593 had to close because of the bubonic plague. Theatre was on same side of river as most well known places in London. The council banded public performances within the city limits
1597: land was owned by a man called Giles Allen. Burbage opened negotiations to re-new the lease for the theatre.
1597: Shakespeare's actors moved to the curtain theatre because of the failed negotiations for a new lease at the theatre.
1598: rebuilt theatre over on south bank and renamed it the globe theatre, in 1599
1603. Bubonic plague comes again and kills over 33,000 people. In 1608 the theatre closes.
1613: fire during a performance of Henry VIII
1614: rebuilt and tiled the roof.
Two years before Shakespeare's death.
Indoor theatres were made used by " boy companies" performed indoors just once a week. Mostly boys who went to private school. Still performed good plays. Watched by family and local officials. A lot more stuff like props and money.
Slightly more expensive than the globe. All about people with more money.
Queen Elizabeth dies in 1603. King James took the throne
Jacobean period ran until 1625.
Jacobean theatre was dark and disturbing, sexual and violent.
As the economy declined. So did the delicacy of theatre performances, moved from outdoors to indoors, because of the changeable level.
Two different types of plays
Revenge plays: obscene and violent
Tragicomedies: dark humour. Sexual.
Two most produced Jacobean plays are " the duchess of malfi" and "the White devil".
Religious people became in charge. Theatre started to decline. Parliament becomes in charge. The didn't like theatre so stopped it. Pulled down the globe theatre. And built houses there. In 1648 all theatres pulled down. Actors were arrested. Got fined for secretly watching performances. 12 years before theatre began again. 1649 King Charles. Was executed by the puritives.
1953: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord protector of England, all entertainment and celebration stopped.
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