What about female actors?

There were no women, young men played the female roles

What is right about the Audience?

From all levels of society (poor and rich)

What was so special about the cheapest tickets?

You had to stand up the whole play

What is right about the stage?

In the middle, the audience could stand 3 next to 3 out of 4 sides

Some believe that he did not write any of it at all because...

No letters from Shakespeare to his family or partners exist, There are no original manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays, His parents were illiterate

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1
The roof of the theatre...
Didn’t exist
Made of hay or wood
Was made of glass, often tainted in bright colours
Was only used when it rained, otherwise they removed it
2
What about female actors?
Only very sexy women allowed on stage
There were no women, young men played the female roles
Not allowed to show their legs to avoid ”dirty thoughts”
A majority of performers were women
3
Shakespeare wrote two different kinds of plays...
Religious and fables
Tragedies and comedies
Comedies and religious
Science fiction and musicals
4
What is right about the Audience?
Only aristocrats or royals
Not educated people
At least middle class (the poor couldn’t afford plays)
From all levels of society (poor and rich)
5
What was so special about the cheapest tickets?
Seated as far away from the stage as possible
You had to stand up the whole play
You were given a jug of ale for free
You could rent a cushion
6
The theatre he ”started”...
The Hovet
The Rose
The Globe
The Bullring
7
What is correct about his family?
Wife and twins
Two wives and eight boyfriends
A husband and a dog
Wife and three children
8
What is correct about the scenery on stage?
More than today
More or less like today
Very little
Most of it was mechanical
9
What is right about the stage?
Everyone had to stand up
Like today, the audience sitting down facing the stage.
Buried four meters below the soil
In the middle, the audience could stand 3 next to 3 out of 4 sides
10
When did he live?
1564 - 1616
1764 - 1818
1763- 1816
1654 - 1716
11
Some believe that he did not write any of it at all because...
No letters from Shakespeare to his family or partners exist
There are no original manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays
His old teacher claimed he had dyslexia
His parents were illiterate
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Where did he live?
Gothenburg and Växjö
Stratford upon Avon and London
London and Manchester
London and Birmingham

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