Drama in Elizabethan times

Where did touring acting companies perform?

• Inn courtyards
• Theaters
• Palaces
• Small purchased shops

In Elizabethan England, the public viewed actors ____.

• Positively
• Negatively
• Neutrally
• Reverently

Men and women both acted in plays during Shakespeare's time.

• True
• False

Who built the first permanent theater in England?

• William Shakespeare
• King James I
• Queen Elizabeth I
• James Burbage

The Globe Theater is . . .

• the first theater ever constructed in England.
• Shakespeare's personal theater.
• where most of Shakespeare's plays were performed.
• the most famous theater ever built.

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THE GLOBE THEATRE: This is where the groundlings would pay a ½ penny to stand in and watch the show

• Pit

• Heavens

• Inner Above and Inner Below

• The Gallery

Theatre was only affordable by wealthier people

• True

• False

The audience was disorderly and hard to control

• True

• False

The spectators needed to use their imagination because there were no appropriate costumes and props

• True

• False

What were people who stood in the pit of the Globe Theater called?

• Mud boggers

• Ground dwellers

• Dirt people

• Groundlings