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| What was unusual about the shape of the stage during Elizabethian times? | it was round |
| True or False The audience was highly involved in the performance and the actors spoke to the audience. | True |
| How did the actors speak to the audience? | through soliloquies and asides |
| True or False Elizabethian theatregoers yelled, laughed, and ate throughout a performance of a play. | True |
| Who oppoised the theatre during the Elizabethan period? | politicians and the clery (church leaders) |
| Why were playhouses banned in the city of London? | the politicians and clery did not like them so the were forced out to the suburbs |
| One theater district that had nine theaters was called | Southwark |
| The theater district got a bad reputation because | inbetween the theaters were taverns and places that pickpockets and thieves hung out |
| When a play was about to begin, what occurred? | a raised flag and a trumpeted fanfare |
| The flag indicated the | theme of the play |
| The color black indictated that the play was a | tragedy |
| The color white indicated that the play was a | comedy |
| The color red indicated that the play was a | history |
| Admission money for the play was placed in | a box (box office) |
| People could sit in one of four places. Where? | galleries on wooden benches, cushions in front of the stage, on the stage, in back with the crowd |
| The crowd of people who stood to watch a play were called | groundlings |
| True or False | Since few Elizabethans bathed, the theaters smelled of sweat, beer, and garlic. |
| The groundlings were referred to the ___ because they didn't bathe and they smelled. | penny stinkards |
| True or False. Snacks would sometimes be thrown on the stage. | True |
| The Shakespeare Globe was under the patronage of ___ | a nobleman |
| Shakespeare's company was originally attached to | Lord Chamberlain and James I |
| True or False. The Globe Theater was the most prestigious theater company in London. | True |
| The Globe Theater was referred to as the | wooden O |
| The theater could hold up to ___ poeple. | 3000 |
| The stage consisted of three tiers (levels). What were they and what did they symbolize? | a trapdoor to go under the stage (Hell); the main stage (Earth); and a canopy over the stage with painted stars (Heaven) |
| To create the sound of thunder, a ___ was on the top of the canopy housed props for sound effects. | hut |
| True or False The actors wore gawdy costumes and makeup that the clergy considered sinful. | True |
| True or False The actors let the people know the time of the day that the play was taking place in through what they said. | True |
| True or False Women were allowed to be actresses. | False |
| True or False Actors often had to learn up to 800 lines per day. | True |
| The Globe burned down in___ when ___ | 1642, a canon exploded and set fire to the theater |
| It was rebuilt in 1642 but it was eventually destroyed in | 1644. |
