Shake Shakespeare

viernes, 26 de abril de 2013

viernes, 15 de marzo de 2013

Locate the main Elisabeth thatres in the next map of London:

Answer the following questions:
1. Whereabout in London were the thatre located? Why?

2. Name the most important thatres during Elizabeth times.

3. Which was the first playhouse in London? Who built it?
It was named Paul's, located in the St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, we don't know who was it built by.

4. When was it built? When was it closed?
It was opened in 1576 and built by Sebastian Westcott. The actors were supressed in 1608 but it was burnt in 1666.

5. Describe the particular shape of the thatres. Where did they take this shape from?
They were a big circle. And this shape comes from Romans culture, for hearing the words better.

6. Who controlled the performance on behalf the government?

7. Why could the theatres closed down?
Because some actors had illnesses, like the black death, and when they were playing a play, they maybe cough, and he contaminated the other people behind him.

8. Who played the parts of women on stage? Why?
The mans, because the womens were like more cute, smart, and the puritans think it wasn't a good think.

9. Did women attend the thatre?
Yes, they can, somethimes.

10. How much did it cost to stand in the yard? And to sit in a gallery? And to have a cushion? And to sit in the lord's room?
Standing in the yard costed 1 penny, in the gallery costed 3, if you want to have a cushion you have to pay between 10 to 26 pennys, but in the lord's room (if you weren't a lord) it was impossible.

viernes, 1 de marzo de 2013

1. What was the name of the company Shakespeare belonged to ?

The Chamberlain's Men, named after The Lord Chamberlain, an official responsible for royal and public entertainment.

2. How many companies were licensed to perform in London ?

There was only two.

3. Why did Shakespeare's company build the Globe ?

Shakespeare's company only built the Globe because they could not 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. What did Shakespeare's company use to build the Globe ?

The Theatre had closed, ostensibly for good, in 1597, and the owner of the land on which it stood threatened to pull the building down once the lease had expired. The Burbages and their associates anticipated the threat, however, and in late 1598 dismantled The Theatre and carried the materials to Bankside (a district of Southwark stretching for about half a mile west of London Bridge on the south bank of the River Thames).

Without The Theatre, the company had to rent a playhouse. Then at the end of 1598 they decided to build one for themselves. The shortage of cash made the consortium reluctant traditionalists, giving up the idea of an indoor theatre in the city and using the old Theatre's timbers and therefore the same basic auditorium shape for the new building. The old playhouse was one of their few remaining resources. They could not use it in situ because the lease had expired, so they dismantled it and took the timbers (illegally) to make the skeleton of their new amphitheatre. The Globe was a cut-price and fortuitous construction.

5. Who built the Globe ?

It was built by two brothers, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, who inherited its predecessor, The Theatre, from their father, James

6. When the Globe was built , there were two other theatres in Southwark already. Which ones ?

The Swan and the Rose

7. When was it built ?

It was probably completed by the autumn of 1599 .

8. How and when was it destroyed ?
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. When was it rebuilt ?

By June 1614 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape.

10. When was it finally pulled down ? Why ?

It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for tenement dwellings.

11. Explain how acting at the Globe was like.

Acting at the Globe was radically different from viewing modern Shakespeare on screen.

NAME: Henry VIII BORN: June 28, 1491 PARENTS: Henry VII - Elisabeth of York CROWNED: April, 1509 RELIGION: Angelican Church MARITAL STATUS: He had 6 wifes CHILDREN: 2 girls, Mary and Elisabeth HOBBIES: Hunt MOST FAMOUS PALACE: House of Tudor DIED: January 28, 1547 REIGNED: from April 21, 1509 to January 28, 1547 BURIED: February 4, 1547

	Henry and his six wifes


Name : Katherine Howard Fate :Executed		Children : 0 Wife Number :5
Name : Jane Seymour Fate :Died		Children : 0 Wife Number : 3
Name : Anne of Cleves Fate :Divorced		Children : 0 Wife Number : 4
Name :Catherine of Aragon Fate : Divorced		Children : Mary Wife Number : 1
Name :Katherine Perr Fate :Widowed		Children : 0 Wife Number :6
Name :Anne Boleyn Fate :Executed		Children :Elisabeth Wife Number : 2