Elizabethan Theatre

Elizabethan playhouses were usually built...

• in the city center

• in the suburbs

• in the countryside

The audience was also called...

The _______was used when action required two different levels (such as Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene)

Playhouses had a bad reputation with the London city officials

• True

• False

Who is William Shakespeare?

• A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.

• The creator of the sonnet

• The creator of poetry

• A popular actor from the early 20th century

The audience members who paid one penny to stand in the pit and watch the performance were called ...

• The pit

• Peasants

• Penny-stinkers or groundlings

• Lord Chamberlain's Men

Actors in the Elizabethan era were...

• Men only

• Women only

• Both men and women

Tick all who were playwrights during the Elizabethan time period.

• Christopher Marlowe

• Sophocles

• William Shakespeare

• Ben Jonson

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

Willilam Shakespeare was a shareholder of the theatre called ...

• The Globe

• The New Globe

• The New Theatre

• The Theatre

How did the Globe Theater announce when a play was taking place?

• The newspaper

• The town crier

• A flag

• Social media