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Macbeth: 12th Grade English: Elizabethan Theaters

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Shakespeare Research Presentation Assignment

Elizabethan Theaters:

Elizabeth Theaters

Use this list of questions to guide the creation of your PPT slides.  Synthesize the information provided for you on this page to answer the questions.

  • What are the names of some of the Elizabethan Theater?
  • How were the theaters similar/different from the Globe Theater?
  • What cultural changes provided for the "birth of modern theater" in Elizabethan England?

Optional print source

A History of the Elizabethan Theater (book is on the cart)

By Adam Woog

  • Explore Chapter 3: London Theaters

The Theatrical Revolution

Elizabethan Theater overview

Articles

Shakespeare's Globe Education:

Helpful websites

Royal Shakespeare Company

MOLA Museum of London Archeology

Bibliography

Works Cited

“Elizabethan London.” Royal Shakespeare Company, www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeares-life-and-times/elizabethan-london. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

Elizabethan Theater. Narrated by Joyce Sherry, 2014. YouTube, youtu.be/z_cTCdkCAcc. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018.

Evans, Robert C. “London’s Theaters and Theater Companies.” Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare’s Day, Chelsea House, 2012. Bloom’s Literature, online.infobase.com/HRC/LearningCenter/Details/12?articleId=469082. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

“Fact Sheets: Indoor Theatres.” Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, 2013, www.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/files/2015/04/playhouses.pdf. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

“Fact Sheets: Playhouses.” Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, 2013, www.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/files/2015/04/playhouses.pdf. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

The Theatrical Revolution. Narrated by Simon Schama, BBC Two, 2012. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=332&v=M11yhSXdKSw. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

Trehy, Sarah. “Playhouses and Theatres: Setting the Scene.” MOLA (Museum of London Archeology, 23 June 2016, www.mola.org.uk/blog/playhouses-and-theatres-setting-scene. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.

Woog, Adam. A History of the Elizabethan Theater. San Diego [Calif.], Lucent Books, 2003.