FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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travel more.
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use permanent performance spaces.
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use actors who were usually members of the nobility.
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cast men to play women and women to play men.
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Detailed explanation-1: -English Renaissance theatre may be said to encompass Elizabethan theatre from 1562 to 1603, Jacobean theatre from 1603 to 1625, and Caroline theatre from 1625 to 1642. Along with the economics of the profession, the character of the drama changed towards the end of the period.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main features of an Elizabethan theatre The theatre was open and plays had to be performed in daylight. A flag would be flown from the top of the theatre to show a play was going to be performed. People sat around the stage in galleries. The cheapest place was in front of the stage where ordinary people stood.
Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabethan theatre was important because it created groups of professional actors who performed regular and cheap plays for the public in purpose-built theatres. The most famous playwright of this period was William Shakespeare.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1576 the first permanent public theatre, called simply the Theatre, was erected by the actor James Burbage. The building boom continued until the end of the century; the Globe, where Shakespeare’s plays were first performed, was built in 1599 with lumber from the demolished Theatre.