The Globe

Question 1

Henry VIII’s relationship with theatre

Answer 1

Restricted it because of it’s close connection with Roman Catholicism

Question 2

1560s

Answer 2

Non-religious theatre in courtyards and inns

Question 3

The Red Lion

Answer 3

John Brayne

Built in Whitechapel in 1567

40’ x 30’ stage - 5’ above audience

Outside the city walls - farmland

Question 4

The Theatre

Answer 4

1576

With Dr. John Dee
Coliseum-like style

Shoreditch

Question 5

The Curtain

Answer 5

1577

Question 6

James Burbage

Answer 6

Originally a carpenter
Turned actor and theatrical entrepreneur

1572- he asked Robert Dudley for protection and patronage

Question 7

The Earl of Leicester’s Men

Answer 7

1574

Question 8

Reputation

Answer 8

Poor
Encouraged crime and Disorder
Frivolous

Question 9

December 1574

Answer 9

Council of all London banned plays within the city walls

Question 10

1596

Answer 10

All theatres within city limits and had to close and move south of the Thames

Question 11

Theatres closed for plague

Answer 11

1592-> 94
1603
1608

Question 12

Giles Allen

Answer 12

Puritan land owner forced Burbage to dismantle ‘The Theatre’

Question 13

The Globe built

Answer 13

In 1599

In Bankside, Southwark

Question 14

Globe owned by

Answer 14

Burbage brothers, Thomas Pope, John Hemings, Augustine Phillips and William Shakespeare

Question 15

1st play at the globe

Answer 15

Julius Caesar

Question 16

Hirelings

Answer 16

Payed a weekly wage

Question 17

Sharers

Answer 17

Contributed money to the company

Received a share of the profits

Question 18

Apprentices

Answer 18

Men who played womens’ roles - paid very little

Question 19

Describe companies of young boy actors

Answer 19

Attached to churches and cathedrals
Refined plays
Higher entrance fee
Playhouses held 1000 people

Question 20

St. Paul’s boys

Answer 20

1575-> 1590

Question 21

Blackfriars Theatre

Answer 21

Used by Chapel Children

1576 -> 1583

Question 22

Queen’s Men

Answer 22

• set up by Sir Francis Walsingham in 1583

* 12 of the finest actors, some stolen from Dudders

Question 23

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Answer 23

• patronage of Henry Carey and Lord Hunsdon

* 1594 -> William Shakespeare becomes principal playwright, writing 2 plays annually

Question 24

Patronage

Answer 24

• Dudders was a patron
• convinced Protestants that play-going was acceptable
• gained favours from Queenie + good reputation

Question 25

Act of Parliament in 1572

Answer 25

All theatre companies had to have a patron

Question 26

Economic accessibility

Answer 26

* 2000 people * groundlings = 1 penny * undercover galleries = 2 pennies * box = sixpence * commercial city * mercantile audience * Reneissance -> rise in literacy rates

Question 27

Playwrights

Answer 27

Ben Johnson Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare

Question 28

Christopher Marlowe

Answer 28

Questioning the very existence of God

Question 29

William Shakespeare

Answer 29

Poetic and philosophical mediations Intellectually rigorous, yet pleased all Difficult language, more complex characters Provocative and experimental plays (Troilus and Cressida)