Elizabethan Theater
Globe Theater
Who Went?
The Plays
Burbage made the theater popular
The Conditions
Unsanitary conditions
Black Plague reigned at the time
Theaters often closed due to the spread of plague
spectators dropped a penny into an admissions box.
Many people went
Elizabeth and other high status politicians
A lot of upper class
Permanent home of The Lord Chamberlain's Men
Tragedies
Comedies
Histories
Sharers would get shares in the box office revenue
inspired capitalism and free enterprise
three hours
Needed more writers for more plays
Many writers felt like they were the continuation of great historical writers like Virgil
For this reason they had a different writing style
A lot of them were snobes
Forty plays a year
Built in 1599
Women were not aloud to be actors