Concetti Chiave
- The Elizabethan theater was central to Renaissance England's culture, with plays accessible to all social classes.
- Initially, plays were performed in inn courtyards, but were later banned by the City due to Puritan influence, leading to the construction of dedicated playhouses like the Globe and the Blackfriars.
- The Globe was an outdoor, round theater associated with Shakespeare, while the Blackfriars was an indoor venue used in winter.
- Elizabethan playhouses had a unique round design with a central stage, fostering interaction between actors and audiences.
- Actors were considered vagabonds; they formed companies under the patronage of nobility, and male actors performed female roles due to gender restrictions.
ELIZABETHAN THEATER
Theater was the most important cultural phenomenon in Renaissance England and the plays were seen by everybody. At first the companies of actors gave public performances in the courtyards of the London inns but later They were banned by the City because They were considered immoral by the Puritans. But in a few years Shakespeare plays were in great demand and many playhouses were built. The most famous were the Globe, The Rose, the Swan, the Blackfriars, the Theater.
The Globe was Shakespeare's theater. The Globe was so called because It was round and It was an outdoor theater with a thatched roof, while the Blackfriars was an indoor theater with a roof and It was used in winter.
There were theaters with roofs and without roofs. In summer plays were performed in outdoors theaters (the Globe) while in winter they were performed in indoors theaters (the Blackfriars).
The Elizabethan playhouse was round in shape with the stage in the middle. The area with no seats was occupied by the lower social classes while the area with seats was occupied by the higher social classes.
plays were performed in the afternoon and the taking of torches indicated that the scene was taking place at night. The Elizabethan playhouses were round with the stage in the middle, so there was an interaction between the players and the audience who could move around, quarrel, eat and drink. This interaction between the players and the audience accounts for the unique atmosphere of Elizabethan playhouses.
Player were considered vagabonds and their plays weren't worth being performed. For this reason they used to put themselves under the protection of noblemen, kings or queens and they called their companies after their names. Shakespeare belonged to companies known as the Lord Chamberlain's Man, the Earl of Leichester's men, the king's men. Women could not act because they were forbidden to act, so men acted female roles disguised as women.
PURITANS
They were a group of English Protestants hostile to the official Church of England. They had very strict moral values, They avoided ostentations, ceremonies, music and considered theaters immoral.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Por qué las compañías de actores fueron inicialmente prohibidas en los patios de las posadas de Londres?
- ¿Cómo se diferenciaban los teatros al aire libre de los teatros cubiertos en la época isabelina?
- ¿Por qué los actores se ponían bajo la protección de nobles, reyes o reinas?
Fueron prohibidas porque los puritanos consideraban que las actuaciones eran inmorales.
Los teatros al aire libre, como el Globe, se usaban en verano y tenían techos de paja, mientras que los teatros cubiertos, como el Blackfriars, se usaban en invierno y tenían techos.
Los actores eran considerados vagabundos y sus obras no eran valoradas, por lo que buscaban protección y legitimidad al asociarse con figuras nobles.
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