A General Concept On Elizabethan Theater

While the profession became better organized and as the plays enhanced in quality, such rough and ready arrangements became more and more unsatisfactory, but there were particular problems in the way of protecting better ones in London. For the population and magistrates of London were prevailing Puritan, and the enlarged body of the Puritans, then as always, were strongly antagonistic to the theater as a frivolous and irreligious thing- an attitude for which the lives of the players and the character of many plays afforded, then as almost always, only too much reason. (An Elizabethan Stage from Chapter VI. The Drama from about 1550 to 1642) .

             The city was very nervous of its prerogatives; so that irrespective of the strong patronage of the drama, throughout her whole reign no public theater buildings were permitted within the proximity of City Corporation. However, such confinements were narrow and in 1576 James Burbage initiated a new age of erecting 'The Theater' just to the north of the 'city', only a few minutes' walk from the center of population. His illustration was soon pursued by other managers, though the favorite place for the theaters soon came to be the 'Bankside', the region in Southwark just across the Thames from the city where Tabard Inn of Cahucer had erected and where pits for bear-baiting and cock-fighting had emerged for a long period of time. (An Elizabethan Stage from Chapter VI. The Drama from about 1550 to 1642) .

             The structure of the Elizabethan theatre was really confined from its prime predecessor, the inn yard. Under the open sky theatre in the opposite side to the street entry the players were habitually fixing their stage. On three sides, the ordinary part of the audience was witnessing the play standing, the invitees and persons capable of paying a fixed price were sitting in the open galleries set up all around the world.

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