1. What was the name of the company Shakespeare belonged to ?
2. How many companies were licensed to perform in London ?
3. Why did Shakespeare's company build the Globe ?
4. What did Shakespeare's company use to build the Globe ?
4. Who built the Globe ?
6. When the Globe was built , there were two other theatres in Southwark already. Which ones ?
7. When was it built ?
8. How and when was it destroyed ?
9. When was it rebuilt ?
10. When was it finally pulled down ? Why ?
11. Explain how acting at the Globe was like.
12. Complete this chart :
Answers
1.-The Globe
2.-Two companyes were licensed to perform in London
3.-Shakespeare's company built the Globe because they couldn't use the special playhouse that their chief actor Richard Burbage's father had built for them in 1596, a roofed theatre inside the city, in Blackfriars.
4.-Two brothers, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage
5.-Acting at the Globe was radically different from viewing modern Shakespeare on screen.
The plays were staged in the afternoons, using the light of day. Therefore, all references to weather or time of the day had to be given to the audience through the text.
The audience surrounded the stage on all sides. No scenery was used, except for occasional emblematic devices like a throne or a bed. It was almost impossible not to see the other half of the audience standing behind the players. Consequently much of the staging was metatheatrical, conceding the illusory nature of the game of playing, and making little pretense to stage realism .
6.-It was built in 1559
7.-When was the Globe built ?It was probably completed by the autumn of 1599
8.-In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the thatch of the Globe was accidentally set alight by a cannon, set off to mark the King's entrance onstage in a scene at Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The entire theatre was destroyed within the hour.
9.-By June 1614.
10-It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for tenement dwellings
11.-Acting at the Globe was radically different from viewing modern Shakespeare on screen.
The plays were staged in the afternoons, using the light of day.
The audience surrounded the stage on all sides. No scenery was used, except for occasional emblematic devices like a throne or a bed. It was almost impossible not to see the other half of the audience standing behind the players. Consequently much of the staging was metatheatrical, conceding the illusory nature of the game of playing, and making little pretense to stage realism
THEATRE
THE GLOBE
LORD ALMIRAL’S MEN AND LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MEN
COMPANY
PLAYWRITER
EDWARD ALLEYN. RICHARD BURBAGE
MANAGER
PHILIP HENSLOWE. THE BURBAGES.
PATRON
LORD CHARLES HOWARD. LORD CHAMBE
