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Elizabethan and

Jacobean Theatre

Unit 8

Outline

1. Early and Mid-Sixteen Century Drama

1.1. The Interlude 1.2. The Rise of Elizabethan Drama 1.3. The University Wits

2. Elizabethan Stage Conditions

2.1. The Inns 2.2. The Inns of Court 2.3. The public Playhouses 2.4. The companies and the players 2.5. Factors affecting performances

1.2. The Rise of Elizabethan Drama

 English Renaissance Drama does not begin in the theatres but in the Inns of Court.

 The first Elizabethan playwrights are professional gentlemen connected with the law.

 The first plays are tragedies in imitation of Latin author Seneca, philosopher and Nero’s tutor.

 Gorboduc, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville , is the first English tragedy, performed at the Inner Temple by gentlemen students in 1562.

1.2. The Rise of Elizabethan Drama

 Horrific crimes, magnicides, will be a constant feature of Elizabethan tragedy.

 Sackville and Norton follow in Gorboduc the Senecan tradition: the horrible and the disgusting take place outside the stage.

 Early Elizabethan comedy will be modelled on Plautus and Terentius.

 Ralph Roister Doister (1552) is the first comedy, written by Nicholas Udall , headmaster of Eton, for his pupils to perform as part of their school activities.

1.3. The University Wits

 Some of these graduates end up in London, looking for employment, and they live out of their pens, writing pamphlets, prose of any kind, and plays for the newly built theatres.

 Their contribution to drama was to make it multifaceted, full of plots, learned references and spectacle. Their influence on the development of comedy was great: they mixed classical, courtly modes with popular, folk ritual.

2. Elizabethan Stage Conditions

2.1. The Inns

2.2. The Inns of Court

2.3. The public Playhouses

2.4. The companies and the players

2.5. Factors affecting performances

2.1.The Inns

 The inns situated on the road to London provided a model for theatres: the structure of the Renaissance inn can still be seen in the Corral de Comedias in Almagro.

 The inns also helped to turn touring acting companies into semi-permanent ones: the actors who used to go like minstrels from village to village and town to town, now have a place to stay and fresh audiences come to them every day.

2.1.The Inns

The yards of these inns are a rectangle with walls on all four sides and a stage at one end. The galleries which surround the yard and give access to rooms can be used as balconies for people to watch the play.

The Blackfriars

The public or arena playhouses

https://myshakespeare.me/performing-will/theaters-london-1567- 1642/

The Swan

All these theatres shared roughly the same structural design: a yard with no roof, often circular in shape, surrounded by galleries with a stage at one end. The outside of the building was polygonal or circular.

 Playhouses:

http://www.shakespearesglobe.c om/uploads/files/2015/04/ playhouses.pdf

Audiences:

http://www.shakespearesglobe.c om/uploads/files/2018/02/ audiences_factsheet.pdf

 Indoor theatres: http://www.shakespearesglobe.c om/uploads/files/2014/01/ indoor_theatres.pdf Actors: http://www.shakespearesglobe.c om/uploads/files/2014/01/ actors.pdf

The Companies

 There were several companies: the most important and successful were The Lord Chamberlain and his Servants and the Lord Admiral and his Servants.

 Through the system of apprenticeship, there is a constant flux of new blood in the company: boys or young men learn to act by means of taking women’s parts since there were no women performers at all on the Elizabethan stage.

 THE PLAYERS : Elizabethan actors are very versatile: they take ‘parts’ of very diverse nature: tragic, comic, etc., they sing and dance, etc.