2. Associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s Reign
Sub-category of English Reneissance theatre

3. 1572 strolling players banned
Nobles started their own companies
Courtyards of inns
1576 the Theatre
The Globe, the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, the Bear Garden etc.

5. Rarely two days in a row
Played in the afternoon
No women
History play, tragedy, comedy  city comedy
Bear baiting, bull ring, gambling
Cheap tickets

6. Bear baiting

7. A clause
Fashion shows
Contemporary clothing
Importance of colours
Women’s parts

8. Mainly from modest backgrounds
Some educated at Oxford or Cambridge
Plays were owned by the companies
Collaborations
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd.

9. W. Shakespeare
C. Marlow

10. Built in 1599 of timber from the Theatre
Owned mainly by actors
1613 burned down, rebuilt in 1614
1642 closed, 1644 pulled down
1970 american actor and director Sam Wanamaker founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust and Inernational Shakespeare Globe Centre
1997 Shakespeare’s Globe opened