Associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s Reign 1558-1603 Sub-category of English Reneissance theatre

2. Associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s Reign • 1558-1603 • Sub-category of English Reneissance theatre

3. 1572 strolling players banned • Nobles started their own companies • Courtyards of inns • 1576 the Theatre • The Globe, the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, the Bear Garden etc.

5. Rarely two days in a row • Played in the afternoon • No women • History play, tragedy, comedy  city comedy • Bear baiting, bull ring, gambling • Cheap tickets

6. Bear baiting

7. A clause • Fashion shows • Contemporary clothing • Importance of colours • Women’s parts

8. Mainly from modest backgrounds • Some educated at Oxford or Cambridge • Plays were owned by the companies • Collaborations • William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd.

9. W. Shakespeare C. Marlow

10. Built in 1599 of timber from the Theatre • Owned mainly by actors • 1613 burned down, rebuilt in 1614 • 1642 closed, 1644 pulled down • 1970 american actor and director Sam Wanamaker founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust and Inernational Shakespeare Globe Centre • 1997 Shakespeare’s Globe opened