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Elizabethan Theatre is named for Queen Elizabeth I, as it was during her reign, from 1588 to 1603, that England saw a remarkable period of innovation and excellence in literature. Elizabethan theatre has two known origins, one being the interludes spoken by wandering actors and the other the classically inspired plays performed by schools and universities of the time.
There are four main forms in Elizabethan Theatre. ... Some examples of Elizabethan comedies are A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, Loves Labours Lost, and Two Gentleman of Verona, all by William Shakespeare. ... Some Elizabethan tragedies were Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine the Great (in two parts) by Christopher Marlowe, and The Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kydd. ... Some Elizabethan histories are Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard II and Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare and Edward II by Christopher Marlowe. ...
In Elizabethan theatre, like Greek theatre, all actors were male. ... A career in acting was not considered honourable in Elizabethan times, only people of the lower classes would take it upon themselves to act in a play. There were few props in Elizabethan plays, as they did not have a curtain or any unnatural lighting to hide the stage from the view of the audience while sets and props were changed. ...
Elizabethan Theatres’ were round or octagonal structures, three stories high. ...
One example of an Elizabethan theatre is the Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed, causing the current Globe Theatre to be known to many as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
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