FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Groundlings smell bad.
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The church thought they were evil.
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Queen Elizabeth hated the theatre.
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Shakespeare was cray-cray.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The second best playhouse Shakespeare’s company built the Globe only because it could not use the special roofed facility, Blackfriars Theatre, that James Burbage (the father of their leading actor, Richard Burbage) had built in 1596 for it inside the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -The officials who ran the City of London thought that playhouses were noisy and disruptive, and attracted thieves and other ‘undesirable’ people. So people built playhouses on sites outside the control of city officials. This meant outside the city wall, in most cases.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Globe was originally built in Bankside, Southwark in 1599. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, led by Richard Burbage and by his father, James Burbage, before him, had been performing at the Theatre, which had been built by the Burbage family on land leased from Giles Allen.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, some small cannons were fired. They didn’t use cannon balls, but they did use gunpowder held down by wadding. A piece of burning wadding set fire to the thatch. The theatre burned down in about an hour.