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Elizabethan Theatre

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1
How did someone become a "legitimate" actor?
Act in small productions for five years before acting in bigger productions
Get a really rich person of nobility to endorse you
Beg and pray REALLY hard
Advertise you and your talents until someone paid you
2
Christopher Marlowe is credited with the introduction of what?
An intermission
Selling concessions
Blank verse
Dark comedies
3
Why were ladies still not allowed to act?
It was unladylike and unsuitable for women
Theatre was too physically demanding for women
Making women's costumes was too time consuming
There was no childcare available
4
Ben Jonson is the first real what?
English comic
Executive producer
British guard
Lacrosse player
5
Who is this era named after and what did she have to do with theatre?
Queen Elizabeth/bought the most tickets
Queen Elizabeth/owned the theatre
Queen Elizabeth/she was a patron of the arts
Bing Bong/You're done
6
Did you find these three playwrights interesting? (Say yes)
Nope, sure didn't.
Yes I did!
7
What are "groundlings"?
Small woodland creatures that are a huge nuisance
an improvisational comedy troupe that supplied plays with legitimate actors
People without money that had to stand on the ground
A word I made up because it sounds funny
8
William Shakespeare was considered the greatest playwright ever. He wrote ________ plays and _______ sonnets.
199/2.009
543/345
987/2,345
37/154
9
True or False: Blank verse is a poem that doesn't rhyme.
False
True