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cuestions:
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. Who built the Globe ?
5. What did shakespeare's use to build 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 :
the answers:
1.it was the globe theatre
2.there were two
3.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.
James Burbage had a long history as a theatrical entrepreneur. In 1576 he built the first successful amphitheatre, known as The Theatre, in a London suburb. Twenty years later, when the lease on The Theatre's land was about to expire, he built the Blackfriars as its replacement. But the wealthy residents of Blackfriars got the government to block its use for plays, so his capital was locked up uselessly.
4.richart and cuthbert burbage build the theatre
5.they build it with the same pieces that the other theatre, piece by piece.
6. the globe was build in 1559.the others theatres are are
7. 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 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape.
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. 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.
12.
THEATRE THE GLOBE
COMPANY LORD ALMIRAL'S MENLORD CHAMBERLAIN'S MEN
PLAYWRITER SHAKESPEARE
MAIN ACTOR IT WASN'T IN THE WEB
MANAGER SHAKESPEARE
PATRON HENRY VII
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