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The Shakespearen theatre
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THE SHAKESPEAREN THEATRE The plays of Shakespeare during his lifetime were performed on stages in private theatres, provincial theatres, and playhouses. His plays were acted out in the yards of bawdy inns and the great halls of the London Inns of Court. Today we are going to talk about one of the most well known of all the renaissance stages associated with Shakespeare. But first a brief introduction to some of the other Elizabethan theatres to provide a more complete picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. The Theatre The Theatre was the first London playhouse, built in 1576 by the English actor and entrepreneur James Burbage, father of the great actor Richard Burbage and friend of Shakespeare. Located in a northern suburb of London, it was a vast, polygonal, three story timber structure, open to the sun and rain. Its exterior was coated with lime and plaster. It had...
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