Renaissance Drama
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| Audience Numbers | 2000-3000 seats
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| Shape of Theater | round, octagonal, or rectangular shaped
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| Structure of Theater | roofed stage with unroofed general seating
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| The Globe | 1599
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| The Fortune | 1600
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| The Swan | we do not know
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| Attic | huge room used for storage of props, rehersals, and auditions
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| Balcony | housed musicians and actors
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| Heavens | the stage ceiling decorated w/zodiac and other symbols
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| Gallery | housed benched seating for paying patrons, aristocracy would sit in the middle gallery(royalty) (2 pence)
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| Stage | bare boards used for performances
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| The Gentleman's Room | seating in the middle gallery (cushioned seats for 3 pence)
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| Private Playhouses | smaller than public and roofed, 1/4 to 1/2 the seating capacity of the public theatre, performed plays year-round
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| Structure of the Stage | 2-3 tiers of roofed galleries, 4-6" raised stage with trap doors, 2 level facade behind stage, no scenery
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| Christopher Marlowe | greatest English tragedy writer next to Shakespeare
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| Ben Jonson | a classic writer, wrote satires and spent lots of money on his productions
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| William Shakespeare | greatest English dramatist, wrote histories, comedies, tragedies, and fantasies
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| Use of soliloquies | speeches where teh actors talk alone to reveal their thoughts
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| Audience | all classes of people, the price of admission was the only thing that separated the classes
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| Actors | all men, women's parts acted by young boys
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| Jobs of actors | acting, singing, dancing, and fencing
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| Actor's pay | paid well, memorize many works at one time, available at short notice
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| Troupes | 3-4 men and a boy(women's roles), controlled by sovereignty
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| Location of troupes | performed their "pageants" in courtyards and town squares
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| Richard Burbage | played Shakespeare's tragic figures
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| Edward Alleyn | acted tragedies by Marlowe and others
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| William Kemp | portrayed Shakespeare's comic parts
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| Costumes | contemporary English fashion, except for supernatural characters, followed conventions of medieval English theatre
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| Performances | began around 3p.m., lasted for 2 hours
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| The Blowing of the trumpets and raising of the flag | announced teh beginnings of the plays
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