FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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language (his words)
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the best actors in town
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visits from the Queen
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charging more for admission to his plays
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Detailed explanation-1: -The plays were staged in the afternoons, using the light of day, and the audience surrounded the stage on all sides. No scenery was used, except for occasional emblematic devices such as a throne or a bed.
Detailed explanation-2: -For the big props that were used in the play like canons, tables, barrels, thrones, etc., They would have people bring them out in the beginning of the play. Furthermore, they used candles, torches, animal skins, etc.
Detailed explanation-3: -Instead of elaborate sets, what did theaters rely on for “scenery"? Playwrights’s use of words, characters, colorful costumes, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare’s success grew through the 1590s. He joined and became a shareholder of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men who performed before Queen Elizabeth on numerous occasions, and as well as writing more plays, he published several poems and circulated his sonnet sequence in manuscript.