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THE GOLDEN AGE OF DRAMA - Coggle Diagram
THE GOLDEN AGE OF DRAMA
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the audience
the audience rapresented all the social strata of Elizabethan society (royalty, nobles, members of the court and common people)
they used to go to the theatre not just to watch a play but also to meet other people, to socialise, to do business, or to show off
Elizabethan theatregoers ofen talked during the show and interacted with the actors, so they had to used a very loud voice
Elizabethan theatres
The first Elizabethan theatre in london was The Theatre followed by The Swan and Shakespeare's Globe
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Elizabeth playwrights generally had a modest background: some of theme had a university degree but the majority of theme ( like Shakespeare) did not
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The mise en scene
Elizabethan public playhouse were open-air structures: this means it was immpossible to create artificial darkness
plays were staged in the afternoon and if a night scene was needed actors used basic props like a candle
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Style:
the plays were a mix of tragedy and comedy and there wasn't respect for Aristotele's unitis of action, time and space