FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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with a lot of action
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with songs and sad scenes
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with special noises and a cannon
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Shakespeare’s time, theater companies used a variety of staging effects in their productions to create a full-body experience for playgoers: fireworks, fake blood, fake body parts, paint, and more.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabethan audiences clapped and booed whenever they felt like it. Sometimes they threw fruit.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sound effects in Shakespeare’s time were expensive and not used all of the time, but were important in bringing a magical quality to the stage. Thunder could be made with drums or a rolling cannonball or by waving a piece of sheet metal. Lightening effects used firecrackers.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are various effects to show smoke, rain, wind, violence and blood, Gods and ghosts and spirits etc. Magical spirits, devils and gods and goddesses often appear in plays from Shakespeare’s time. Good spirits and Gods and Goddesses usually entered through a trapdoor in the Heavens.