An acting company is a group of players who work together to put on plays. His move may have coincided with the closure of the Theatre in Shoreditch and the opening of the Globe on Bankside.
A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June and closed in Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Users' questions. With this money they leased land on the south bank of the River Thames, near the Rose theatre.
The builder who stored the timbers of the Theatre was Peter Streete. Once the weather was better Streete took the timber across the Thames, to Southwark, and used them to build the Globe theatre. Southwark was a good place for the new theatre. It was outside the control of the city officials who were hostile to theatres. People already went there to be entertained. It had two theatres the Rose and the Swan , animal baiting arenas, taverns and brothels.
Streete and his workmen built a brick base for the theatre. The walls were made from big timber frames, filled with smaller slats of wood covered with plaster that had cow hair in it. Because the owners were struggling for money, they used the cheapest options in the building process. For example, the roof of the theatre was thatched with reeds, not covered with more expensive tile.
In the theatre opened and was a huge success. This engraving of Bankside, made in , shows the tiled roof and large tiring house and stage roof like an upside-down W of the second Globe. In this picture the labels were swapped around. In course of time, speaking parts were introduced, and then the word became to be applied indiscriminately to all kinds of plays, such as Mystery, Miracle, and Morality Plays, which had by the end of the sixteenth century become obsolete and antiquated.
How Many Plays? The general consensus is that Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays. However, no one can know for certain because of the inexact documentation at the time the plays were first being organized and published. If we include The Two Noble Kinsmen and two lost plays attributed to Shakespeare, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won , then we could say he wrote, either alone or in collaboration, forty plays.
Bard Bites Elizabethan playhouses were open to the public eye at every turn, and scenery could not be changed in between scenes because there was no curtain to drop.
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