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Drama


 * **﻿ ﻿Famous playwrites in Elizabethin Era **
 * **Christopher Marlowe wrote "The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage", "The Jews of Malta", "The Massacre at Paris" and many more. **
 * **Francis Beaumont anther famous playwrite wrote "The Woman Hater"," The Knight of the Burning Pestle", and "A King ond No King". **
 * **John Fletcher wrote "The Faithful Sheperdes", "Monsieur Thomas", and "Without Money" **
 * **Thomas Middleton "The Puritians", and "The Phoenix" **
 * **Thomas Kyd "The Spanish Tragedy" **
 * **Philip Henslowe took entreys from his diary and made them into short plays **
 * **Richard Brome signed a contract with one of the theaters to supply three plays a year. **
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 * **﻿Places **
 * **In 1558 there were no theatres just traveling actors. **
 * **Some groups built small portable scenerys **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Also breakdown stages **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">performed in churches **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">or unaltered rooms **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">First theatre was built in 1576 by The Earl of Leicester players **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[image:eet.gif width="263" height="286"]]
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Style of acting: **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">melodramatic or over the top acting **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">had hardly any props or scenery **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">they used dialog to make up for the loss of props **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">all parts were played by men there were no women **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">younger boys played women because their voices had not changed **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">actors had to be able to sing, dance,act, and fencing **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Actors: **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">girls and women were not allowed to act on stage **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">as boys voice's lowered they stopped playing girls and played men **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">the youngest actor in the troup varyed from 10 to 13 years of age **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">most actors came from choir school where they were trained to be actors **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">3 Main Types of Acting **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">History: showed old English or European history **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Tragedy: sad and always ended badly **
 * **<span style="color: #0900ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Comedies: they weren't always funny but rather ended happy[[image:kk.jpg width="416" height="295"]] **

By: Ashtyn Kinney, Kavarie Simpson, and Jalisa Pinckney

Resources:

Jokinen, Anniina. Luminarium. January, 27,2011. []

Larque, Thomas. Shakespearean, 2001. January, 27,2011. []

Angle Fire. January, 27,2010 []

Baldwin, Lacey, Smith, Peter Elizabethan Drama. January,28,2011. []