Elizabethan

Question 1

Humanism

Answer 1

Return to classicism of Greece/Rome

Question 2

Petrarch

Answer 2

Father of Humanism

Question 3

Geocentrism

Answer 3

Idea that earth is center of universe

Question 4

Queen Elizabeth

Answer 4

Underwrote all shakespeare’s work

Question 5

Royal Patent

Answer 5

1574AD
bans religious subjects from theater
Only queen sanctioned theaters allowed
queen was progressive (patent was not an issue)

Question 6

Shakespear

Answer 6

1564-1616

Plays approved of by the queen

Question 7

Globe theater

Answer 7

“the wooden O”

All of shakespeare’s plays took place here

Question 8

Lord Chamberlains men

Answer 8

Shakespeare’s theater company

Question 9

Richard Burbage

Answer 9

Wealthy producer and actor who built globe theater

Question 10

Groundlings

Answer 10

Cheapest seats in globe theater

Question 11

Thrust Stage

Answer 11

Allows audience on three sides of the stage

Higher up = higher status

Question 12

Flags

Answer 12

Red=history
white=comedy
Black=tragedy

Question 13

Boy’s companies

Answer 13

Preteen boys used for female roles.

Indentured servants given up by parents who couldn’t support them