The Globe Theater
shakespeare test
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- lots
- amount of audience participation
- gallery
- located right below the heavens, this was the space where musicians would be playing or additional spectators could be seated if necessary
- men
- actors
- groundlings
- name for the people sitting in the pits
- upper stage
- the highest stage
- outer stage
- stage that projects outward towards the pits
- huts
- held the cranks that could lower or raise characters from the stage; this is what the flags hung from
- 3 stories
- height of the Globe
- A cannon ball landed in the Heavens and the building went up in flames
- How did the Globe catch on fire?
- the Heavens
- served as the only stationary scenery in The Globe; used as a special effect
- natural lighting
- lighting of the globe
- none
- What sets did the Lord Chamberlain's Men use?
- wood and thatch
- building materials were _________ and _________
- circular
- shape of the Globe
- 3 stages
- # of stages of the Globe
- Henry VIII
- play in which the Globe burned down
- 1642
- year that the new king closed all of the theaters in London
- 2 hours with no intermission
- play length
- a small fire and the landlord raised the rent
- WHat were the 2 reasons that The Theater was disassembled, moved, and rebuilt as The Globe Theater?
- hell
- the underneath area of the stage; this is found under the outer stage and was used for dramatic entrances/exits
- Lord's rooms
- these were 6 private galleries where aristocrats sat. These seats were more expensive, and this is where Queen Elizabeth herself would sit when viewing Shakespeare's many plays.
- poor people
- this part of the audience sat in the pit
- flag
- served as a cheap way to advertise ithat a play was being performed that day; different colors stood for different types of dramas; this was attached to the huts
- 1613
- year that Shakespeare retired
- inner stage
- stage found beneath the upper stage but on the same level at the outer stage
- pit
- this area was where the grounglings could stand and watch; these were the "cheap seats"; also called "The Yard"
- 1613
- year the Globe burnt down
- 1599
- year that the Globe Theater was built
- wealthy people
- this part of the audience sat in tiered seats or Lord's rooms