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Group 9 . SIANI, ORLANDO, KAYLIA. Shakespearean Play Formats. Act 1: Setting, place, meeting the characters Act 2: Complications Act 3: Climax Act 4: Falling action Act 5: Catastrophe [conflict resolves (bad or good]). Kinds Of Plays. History Tradegy Comedy.

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Group 9

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  1. Group 9 SIANI, ORLANDO, KAYLIA.

  2. Shakespearean Play Formats • Act 1: Setting, place, meeting the characters • Act 2: Complications • Act 3: Climax • Act 4: Falling action • Act 5: Catastrophe [conflict resolves (bad or good])

  3. Kinds Of Plays • History • Tradegy • Comedy

  4. Elizabeth England View Theater • Popular • Attracts critism, censorship and scorn from some sectors of English society. • The plays were often coarse and beisterous, and play wrights and actors belonged to a bohemian class. • They also feared the over crowded theater space might lead to the spread of disease. • Richard Burbage is the best known actor who performed at the Elizabethan Theater. • Leading actor in Shakespeare’s company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, created with dramatic leads in Richard III, Hamlet, Lear, and Othello. Shakespeare played roles in his own plays.(older male characters) • Acting was not considered appropriate profession for women in the Elizabethan Era. So the young men had to play the roles for the women in the play.

  5. Theater as a Political Weapon • William Shakespeare, however, somehow avoided the wrath of royal authorities while fellow playwrights were jailed for writing controversial works. • However, to playwrights such as Ben Jonson, the promotion of some messages proved unsound. Copies of Jonson and Thomas Nashe’s 1597 play the Isle of Dogs, were destroyed and both men spent time in jail owing to the content. The Privy Council questioned Jonson over his play Sejanus in 1603 regarding themes of political corruption; and in 1605, he found himself in jail again over anti-Scottish sentiment within the play Eastward Ho. • On the 8th February 1601 a rebellion began, and failed, to place the Earl of Essex on the English throne. The previous evening the conspirators paid Shakespeare’s company to perform the play RichardII, which discusses similar events.

  6. Queen Elizabeth’s View of Theater • The Queen, we are told, was greatly pleased. The story is obviously absurd and incredible. Elizabeth did not visit the public theatres, and the custom was to sit removed from the stage at both private and also at Court performances, and her majesty, however much she may have estimated plays and players, and Shakespeare in particular, would not thus have forgotten her queenly state and dignity.

  7. Reference Page • http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~deis/fiveact.html • http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/education/elizabethan-theater • http://www.britaininprint.net/shakespeare/study_tools/political_theatre.htmlhttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/patronelizabeth.html

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