Exercise 6 page  92

1.       Plays

2.       Have

3.       As

4.       That

5.       To

6.       From

7.       Were

8.       During

9.       Most

10.   Well

11.   At

12.   Out

Exercise 7 page 92 (WRITE)

The Elizabethan audiences were various: from groundlings to rich nobles, who would pay to sit while the play was performed. But what they all had in common was their love for metaphors and extremes and long speeches and soliloquies. They loved to express their feelings during the play, eat, drink, approve or disapprove choices made by the characters, so they were often also very noisy.

Exercise 2 page 92 (BROWSE)

1.       Find information about:

A.      The location of the New Globe: 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT;

B.      How it can be reached: By telephone, fax and email;

C.      How can you book a performance: you don’t need to call or email anyone, you just have to click the ‘Book Online’ link after you chose the performance you want to attend.

2.       Visit the exhibition. What insights does it give you into Shakespeare’s theatre? Make short notes and write down a short summary.

There are six insights into Shakespeare’s theatre: Visitor Information, Special Exhibitions, Gift Experiences, Groups Information, Combined Group Packages and Travel Trade. In the first section there’s information about exhibitions, tour opening hours and tickets. In the second section you can find information about special temporary exhibitions. In the third section there’s information on how and which gift you can make to a friend or relative. In the forth section you can find out how to book a play for a group of people and there’s also a list of the different prices. In the fifth section there are special offers where you can not only attend a performance but also tour some important attractions nearby. The sixth and last section is about travel trade partners.

3.       Find information about:

London playhouses in the 16^th and 17^th centuries and the history of the Old Globe:

 

·         First years of Elizabeth’s reign, the English playing companies used inns, inn yards, college halls and private houses for their performances;

·         1576: first purpose-built playhouse built by James Burbage in London;

·         1580: Shakespeare joined the company in the Theatre in Shoreditch;

·         1596: dispute about the renewal of the lease and negotiations;

·         1597: James Burbage died and the lease expired, but the dispute continued for two years;

·         1598: after leasing a plot near the Rose, a rival theatre in Southwark, the company starts to build a new playhouse, and to cover the cost of the new playhouse, James Burbage’s sons Cuthbert and Richard, offered some members of the company shares in the building, one of them was Shakespeare;

·         1599: the Globe was finished, and from now on it would have been very successful thanks to the performances of Shakespeare’s plays;

·         1613: the theatres thatched roof went fire and the whole structure burnt to the ground in less than two hours; but it was quickly rebuilt and it became the second Globe, but Shakespeare no longer wrote for it;

·         1642: the Globe was closed because it was under England’s Puritan administration;

·         1644: the theatre was demolished to make room for tenements;

 

4.       Collect information about the frons scenae as regards:

A.      The stage walls were decorated with mythological symbols and figures;

B.      The Heavens was the roof over the Globe stage, painted with stars, moons, and signs of the zodiac;