The Elizabethan Theaters:

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The Elizabethan Theaters

• Shakespeares Globe Theater

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Made By

• Patrick Griffin Paul Peng

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This ingenious writer took part in the building
of the Globe Theater, one of the most successful
theaters of all time.
He and many like him used it as a foreground for
many of their productions.
The Globe Theater was the main source for the
success of many aspiring young writers.
Among contemporary playwrights at the time was
William Shakespeare.
1564-1616
The Elizabethan Period was Londons golden age.
It was a time of great cultural and social
achievements.
New styles of art, literature, and drama were
developed.
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The Origins of Theater

• Rogues and vagabonds
• Drum and trumpet parade
• Wages

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The Origins of Theater

• Traveling acting companies
• When plays became profitable?theaters were
  established
• The Theater

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The Theater

• 1577
• John Burbage
• Shoreditch, London
• The Curtain (1578)
• The Rose (1587)
• The Swan (1595)

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The Globe

• John Burbage passed away before lease on the
  Theater ran out
• Ownership given to Cuthbert and Richard
• Lease ran out

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The Globe

• Landlord suggests new lease
• Burbages try to compromise
• Landlord refuses and threatens to take land

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The Globe (1599)

• The Burbages wouldnt comply
• Burbages and many others disassemble the Theater
• They carried the pieces across the Thames to
  Bankside Southwark

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The Name

• The word globe was new in the English language
• Shakespeare may have given the name

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The Name
All the worlds a stage And all the men and
women merely players They have their entrances
and their exits, And one man in his life plays
many parts -William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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The Architecture
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Theater Behavior

• Full freedom to do as one wished
• If audience disliked performance they threw refuse

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Life of the Globe

• June 29, 1613
• During King Henry VIII
• 2 cannons fired to salute the entrance of the
  king
• Spark ignited the thatched roof

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Life of the Globe

• New Globe theater is built with slight changes
  (1614)
• Torn down by Sir Matthew Brand who stated it was
  out of fashion (1644)

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The New Globe

• 1989 5 of the ruins were dug up
• New interest in the Globe
• Recontruction was finished in 1994

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The New Globe

• 75,000 touriists annually
• Voted best attraction in Europe (1996)
• Global impact