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Thomas Hardy was once invited to join a committee to establish a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. His reply was that he was feeling against the desirability of such a memorial to Shakespeare. His observations and opinions on Shakespeare were uncommon but genuine. Hardy believed that Shakespeare did not particularly belong to the theatre world. His distinction as a theatre man was infinitesimal beside his distinction as a poet and as a man of letters. That his expression of himself was cast in the form of words for actors on the stage and not in the form of books to be read, was an accident of his social circumstances which he himself despised. Thomas Hardy here also made the prophetic remark that, of all poets of high rank whose works have taken a stage direction, Shakespeare will someday cease altogether to be acted on stage, and simply begin to be studied. Hardy thus proclaimed his stand against any material monument to the poet, as his works were a great monument. However he later consented to the commissioning of some 'colossal' statue in some place public. Hardy himself has noted these in his Life. He specifically noted the word 'colossal' to denounce the tastes of the vulgar minds of his times, which are exactly applicable to us in our modern times. Vulgarity never changes with Ages.
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This rendition of Shakespeare's Othello was performed in the Pasadena playhouse this summer, contrary to the original rendition at Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre.
What did William Shakespeare do for the English language?
The very first English tragedy was Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, probably written around 1562 (two years before Shakespeare was born).Theatre as we know it did not exist before Shakespeare's time. There were Miracle Plays, Mystery Plays, and Mummer shows - but these were amateur perfomances with very simple stories which were usually performed connected with a religious festival. They were more like a Christmas pantomime at the Church Hall than like a modern play.Commercial Theatre - professional actors producing plays for entertainment, and people paying money to see them - only began while Shakespeare was growing up. The earliest playhouse of which we have record was the Bull Inn (mentioned by Richard Flecknoe in his Short Discourse of the English Stage) which only began to offer real plays 'about the begining of Queen Elizabeth's reign' (ie 1558).So when Shakespeare first arrived in London in the 1580's theatre was a new entertainment medium. It was very unpopular with the forces of social conservatism (including much of the aristocracy and almost all religious fundamentalists) since it enabled the ordinary people who became actors sometimes to become very rich. (Actors were called masterless men. The idea that someone could make money without either being born rich, or training in an established profession, was new and scandalous in Elizabethan society). Theatre was also unpopular with the upper classes because it was an entertainment medium which ordinary working people could afford.The company that Shakespeare joined - James Burbage' The Lord Chamberlains Men - had the first custom-built playhouse in the world. Burbage built it himself (Burbage was a builder before he became involved with drama) and when it opened (sometime around 1577) there was no name for such a place - there had never been one before. Burbage invented a name: he called it The Theatre.Over the next sixty years (until in 1642 the religious fundamentalists had their way and closed all the theatres down) theatre became the first commercial entertainment medium in the world. Almost any working person could afford to go to the theatre (at least occasionally), and - because theatre was performed by masterless men, who had no special interest in protecting the existing class-system or the existing church - theatre plays could discuss social issues (Othello), sexual morality (Much Ado about Nothing), modern fashion (As You Like It). The theatre could also teach history (the Henry VI plays) or indirectly discuss contemporary political crises (Richard II is a historical play, but the issues it deals with were acutely relevant during the period it was written). A little after Shakespeare's time there were even plays about current affairs (Thomas Middleton's Game at Chess, or A Chaste Maid in Cheapside).The Elizabethan theatre was the world's first commercial entertainment medium, and in Elizabethan society it did the work that is now done by Television, Cinema, Rock Music, political rallies, and even newspapers.Shakespeare wasn't the only Elizabethan dramatist. Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Decker are all also important. But Shakespeare was the best - and Elizabethan drama was certainly the begining of the modern entertainment industry, and in an important sense it was also the begining of the modern world.
Is theatre a common noun?
Yes, the word 'theatre' is a common noun, a general word for any building or outdoor area in which plays and other performances are given; a general word for a profession.Example: "I enjoy the theatre."A proper noun is the name or title of a specific person, place or thing. When part of a specific theatre's name, then it is a proper noun: "The Grand Theatre."
Quel est le role de la musique dans le theatre?
What is the role of music in the theatre?
What is the british spelling of theater?
Theatre :)
What is the Shakespeare theater?
It's a Theatre someone has decided to name after Shakespeare. The most famous of these, although neither is strictly speaking called "the Shakespeare Theatre", are Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, built in 1995 in Southwark, London, and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, originally built in 1932 and substantially renovated since, in Stratford.
What has the author Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth written?
Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth has written: 'Haunted houses' 'Theatre in action' -- subject(s): Stage-setting and scenery, Drama, Theaters, History and criticism, Theater 'The theatre of my heart' -- subject(s): Shakespeare memorial national theater (London, England), Theater, London (England). Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre, London (England)
Where were Shakespeare plays showed at?
Theatres, mostly. During Shakespeare's lifetime they were performed at the Rose, Newington Butts Theatre, The Theatre, The Curtain, The Globe and the Blackfriars, and afterward at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Old Vic, the National Theatre, The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and at Shakespeare's Globe among many others. They have also been performed in private houses, at court, on ships, in gardens, in schoolhouses, village halls and, to tell the truth, just about everywhere.
What has the author Robert B Loper written?
Robert B. Loper has written: 'Macbeth productions at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1900-1938'
What is the global theatre?
the theatre William Shakespeare built. The theatre William Shakespeare built in 1599.
When was American Shakespeare Theatre created?
American Shakespeare Theatre was created in 1955.
What was shakespeares theatre in stratford-upon-Avon called?
Shakespeare did not have a theatre in Stratford. There's one there now, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre where the Royal Shakespeare Company plays, but there wasn't one in Shakespeare's day.
What share did shakespeare buy?
Shakespeare bought share in a theatre group where worked for five years. The name of the theatre is Globe theatre.
How was William Shakespeare theatre destroyed?
If there was a theatre called "William Shakespeare Theatre", you will have to be a little more specific. Was there such a theatre built in Akron, Ohio in the 1930s? Or in Calcutta in the 1890s? If the theatre you are talking about is "Shakespeare's Globe Theatre", it is still standing, having been built in 1997. If the theatre you are talking about is the Blackfriars Theatre, in which Shakespeare acted and held a small share, it was demolished in 1655. If the theatre you are talking about is the First Globe Theatre, in which Shakespeare also acted and held a small share, it burned down on June 29, 1613. If the theatre you are talking about is the Second Globe Theatre, which was built to replace the first one in 1614, and which might have had nothing to do with Shakespeare, it was torn down in 1644.
What London theatre was used in Shakespeare's time?
The Globe Theatre
When did Shakespeare's theatre start?
It depends what you mean by "Shakespeare's theatre". Do you mean the theatre which was built in 1996 and is called Shakespeare's Globe Theatre? Or do you mean the theatre company which he joined, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which was founded in 1594? Or do you mean the tradition of Elizabethan theatre of which Shakespeare was a part, which started in about 1560? It could be any one.
Where was the royal Shakespeare company is based at?
Not the Globe theatre. The RSC is based at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
