ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side, called the Globe?
A
Augustine Phillipps
B
John Heimnge
C
Henry Condell
D
Richard Burbage
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Later, they presumably used The Theatre, situated in Shoreditch, which was owned by actor Richard Burbage’s father. In the autumn of 1599, the company was rehoused in the Globe Theatre, built by Richard and Cuthbert Burbage on the south bank of the Thames, due west of London Bridge at Southwark.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the play’s original production at the Globe and the Blackfriars, the part of Ferdinand was played by Richard Burbage, the principal actor of the King’s Men who also first played the roles of Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear.

Detailed explanation-3: -Richard Burbage, (born c. 1567, London-died March 9/13, 1619, London, Eng.), English actor, first player of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Romeo, Henry V, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Lear. The son of the actor and theatre manager and owner James Burbage, Richard had attained wide popularity as an actor by age 20.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1608, when the company could finally fulfill James Burbage’s original plan for the Blackfriars, the members chose, extravagantly, to operate the two theatres together, using the open-air Globe in the summer and the roofed Blackfriars in the winter.

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