The Elizabethan Theatre During The Tudor Era

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Register to read the introduction… White was used for comedy, black for tragedy and red for history. In some places there were also special effects such as smoke or fireworks.

The Elizabethan Theatre took place during the Tudor dynasty, mainly the rule of queen Elizabeth I who saw herself as a royal actor, as the wife of the Kingdom for being unmarried and as the mother of her people. She broke the relation with Roe in religion but retained some of the practices and beliefs of the Catholicism that had been introduced in England before she was the queen. She believed in the absolute power of the Queen and that God had pointed her to be his deputy in the Kingdom. Her reign was stable, prosper and peaceful. It was also the age of exploration expansion and settlement of the British empire.

There were several social classes or levels. At the top of them there was the king, or the Queen in this period. Then the nobility, the gentlemen, that were of different levels too. The yeomen (like jury’s, church wardens and holders of land) and he tenants followed, and finally the skilled labourers, the landless labourers and other works as milkmaids, servants and

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