Why was the Globe Theatre built outside the city walls?

Why was the Globe Theatre built outside the city walls?

The officials who ran the City of London thought that playhouses were noisy and disruptive, and attracted thieves and other ‘undesirable’ people. So people built playhouses on sites outside the control of city officials. This meant outside the city wall, in most cases.

What was unusual about the Globe Theatre?

The first Globe, based on the skeleton of the original Theatre of 1576, was unique not just as the most famous example of that peculiar and short-lived form of theatre design but because it was actually the first to be built specifically for an existing acting company and financed by the company itself.

Who was the most popular playwright in Shakespeare’s time?

William Shakespeare

What would an Elizabethan audience think of Romeo and Juliet?

Neither Elizabethan or modern audiences would believe Romeo’s feelings for Juliet to be true. Shakespeare himself alludes to the fact that we are not meant to believe these emotions as the Friar chides Romeo for his rapidly changing feelings.

Did Shakespeare’s audience understand his plays?

Originally Answered: Did Shakespeare’s audiences actually understand his plays? Yes, of course they did! Shakespeare wrote in modern English. At the time Shakespeare was writing, there was so formal grammar.

Did people actually talk in Old English?

The answer: Yes … and No. NO – Of course people didn’t speak in iambic pentameter, the non-rhyming verse form that Shakespeare (or whoever actually wrote those works) used for the stage. They spoke in non-verse sentences and phrases, like you and me.

Why Shakespeare is still important today?

Not only did Shakespeare teach us about ourselves and humanity, but he also invented around 1700 words which we still use in everyday English today. Shakespeare’s plays are studied in schools across the country, the most famous include: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and Macbeth.