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Shakespearean Theatre - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The tiring house was also used to represent a cell, a tomb, or just to simulate people travelling away
      - The stage reached the middle of the playhouse; playgoers were not fully separated from the actors and audience interaction was encouraged
- - - - But nearly everyone was multi-talented!
      - Women didn't act; female roles were played by boy actors.
        
        No laws prevented women from acting! Probably just a matter of custom - immoral for women to live the acting lifestyle and to be public figures ("public" woman = prostitute)
- - - - not only plays often dealt with adultery and fornication, but since boys played female roles, playhouse were even an inducement to sodomy!
        
        plus, acting is deluding people into thinking you're someone else, so plays promote hypocrisy and deceit
    - - but he was a failed playwright, so....
  - - - criticizes English theatre b/c doesn't respect Aristotelian unity of time and place, lacks verisimilitude and decorum, mixes social classes and lacks credibility (no props, too fast, etc)
- - - - once the play is written, rehearsals take up very little time (only 3 weeks!)
        
        Roles were assigned according to each actors' talents in order to reduce their strain in impersonating someone totally different from them
        
        Almost no scene props; ample space to improvisation and traditional conventions (i.e. stock poses for things such as love at first sight)
        
        no directors! the book-keeper had the text of the play and would coordinate from the tiring house
        
        in-house playwrights often wrote roles for specific actors
    - - plays lasted less than nowadays (2/3 hrs) (actors probably spoke faster; also no props meant faster flow) and were rarely played twice in the same week